These pictures are of the art created during Drawing: Testing and Trusting Yourself…it's about the journey, one of the 12 workshops that took place last week as part of our opening faculty meetings.
This next to last exercise is all about the light, dark and in between shades. Until reading about and watching this lesson, I had no idea that shadows had so many parts: highlight, midtones, shadow edge, cast shadow, core shadow, and the reflected light!
These two drawings focus on shadows. While the contours may be a bit off, I quite like the effect of incorporating shadows, as the result is more interesting and displays more depth.
Gesture drawing consists of "quick, fluid strokes" drawn to convey the basic shapes of objects and how they relate to one another. There is no erasing involved and a gesture drawing should truly be a quick sketch.
Structural drawings are a bit more detailed, focusing on perspective (mine need work in this area!) and proportion. They are more finely-tuned than gesture drawings, and the eraser can be used liberally in completing the sketch.
Based on that description, can you tell which is which?
The contours (outlines) are more or less fine, but the perspective (how objects are in relation to each other and to a vanishing point) needs work!
-Laurie
