Course work: Four 30-second gestures, a blind contour drawing, two cylinder drawings, and, just for fun, a drawing using rectangular solids instead of cylinders.
Reading:
Richard Osborne & Dan Sturgis Art Theory for Beginners
For Beginners LLC, Danbury, CT, USA, 2006
Pp. 155-177
Personal sketchbook work: A self-portrait of sorts. This was done using the webcam on the computer, producing a head-in-motion just as does a mirror. Lighting was not optimal, but it was an interesting experiment.
Analyse form check and log: This was a fairly interesting exercise that required a somewhat different way of looking at things. I think that the exercise is most useful for analysis of light and of foreshortening. One problem I had with this exercise was that cylinders make it more difficult to tell how a body part is oriented…one knows that a cylinder atop another represents a head and a torso, but it is difficult to tell which way the head (or the torso) is facing. I think that I am now ready to confront the tonal study exercise.
Total time: 1 hour 12 minutes
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