First, some gestural drawings - the aim is to start at the middle rather than outline, and I kinda lost sight of that -
The last of these turned into a longer pose - and then we took black chalk and filled in the background, then looked at everyone's to see the relation of the form to the background. Nearly everyone cut off some of the sides or top or bottom, to fit the form into the space better.
Two poses that involved looking through a viewfinder first of all, to find out whether the orientation would be portrait or landscape - which way did the model best fill the space? Then we worked with red chalk for the body, black chalk for the negative spaces, and in switching between the two tried to see the shape of the body in this non-standing-up position as it really was, rather than as we expected it to be:
A very interesting exercise - who knew the legs would take up so much of the paper!
The last of these turned into a longer pose - and then we took black chalk and filled in the background, then looked at everyone's to see the relation of the form to the background. Nearly everyone cut off some of the sides or top or bottom, to fit the form into the space better.
Two poses that involved looking through a viewfinder first of all, to find out whether the orientation would be portrait or landscape - which way did the model best fill the space? Then we worked with red chalk for the body, black chalk for the negative spaces, and in switching between the two tried to see the shape of the body in this non-standing-up position as it really was, rather than as we expected it to be:
A very interesting exercise - who knew the legs would take up so much of the paper!
My goodness, Margaret - you have art-making on full speed at the moment.....
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I am following all your lessons with interest - like this one a lot. Its another version of negative space I suppose. It sometimes seems easier to block in the outside, isn't it? I loved your last example with all the leg!
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