The Expressive Figure Assignment
Concept: Emphasis
Materials
- Vine or Willow Jumbo Charcoal ( Generals), Graphite lead and holder, ballpoint pen, Crayon, etc
- 90 lb drawing paper 12" x 19" or similar sketchbook
- Faber-Castell Kneaded Eraser
- I pad
Starting with charcoal or graphite, quickly sketch draw a gestural mannikin of the pose with the emphasis on proportions and action. This should take fifteen seconds or less and be in the spirit of what Michelangelo called "the Flame". Think of it as three helixes wrapping around a central core, like ribbons or strands of flame rising and converging above.
With the template of the mannikin pose as a guide, consider how the volumes of the "peanut", "cylinders, and "ovoid" describe the volumes "in space" and can taper as they move away from us and loom larger the closer they are to us. Be cognizant of this "in and out" spatial occupancy.
Choose three poses and explore the quality of :
Emphasis
Impart more data in some areas and counterpose that with areas of less data. Detail is balanced against vagueness as a total effect.
Be reminded that some aspects of the body, ( faces, hands, feet, and genitals ) have increased frisson or "irradiance", and will attract the eye more easily and this will have to be factored into how you calibrate where the eye will go. The artist may have to intentionally obliterate or "ghost" a too realistic head or hand because it upsets the sequence within the drawing proper. This sequential trajectory of the eye starts then, to impart a narrative, as the artist consciously ( perhaps subconsciously as well) imparts data throughout the drawing much as a novel imparts data through a sequence of chapters.
very loose and non specific(brut) quality
finishing the drawing with concentrated data specific marks
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