The Expressive Figure Assignment
Concept: Trajectories
Using the Golden Ratio Spiral for placement
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 an 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 :
Trajectories
Using the Golden Mean Spiral 1.618 concept as a way to orchestrate trajectories, notice how the spiral begins at a nexus roughly three quarters down from the top of the figure (1.618?) from the top of the figure.
There is some subjectivity about where to locate the origins of the spiral(nexus), but it is uncanny how the edges of the figure naturally correspond with the movement of the algorithmic radial arc.
Consider the pictorial potential of shapes including background elements and cast shadow shapes that integrate and enhance the pose.
The following are Croquis poses
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