HOMEWORK ALERT!

Here's a new homework assignment for you!!

Practice "Foreshortening", the visual distortion that happens when looking at objects from one end. Your challenge is to create a drawing that demonstrates this visual effect.
Draw your legs and feet, or arms and hand to show foreshortening.

Here are some photos for example:

Your drawing should use these "tricks" to make the foreshortened illusion:
1. Parts of the object overlap other areas...
2. Objects close to you appear larger, further away= smaller.
3. Closer objects are in focus, further away = blury

Here are some other photos and drawn examples...

An egg carton from the side- all shapes are the same size and in an even row...

When viewed from the end, the closer side is larger, the top and bottom lines are angled, and the individual "bumps" in the carton overlap each other....

That's foreshortening... Here are some examples in drawings:

Hendrik Goltzius, "The betrayers 3, Phaeto"- this is an etching.

foreshortening simple shapes....

 

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Mantegna, 1490

The above piece, by Mantegna, is a great example of foreshortening- except that he shrank the size of the feet! They would appear larger in real life, because they are closer to you. The artist was trying to make the figure not seem abnormal...

Ben Bronstein's wonderful lines!

Here's a great collection of line based images!!!

Ben is fantastic at paying attention to the size, direction and shape of the lines in his work..... beautiful stuff!

Check his web site to see more and more line work!

It's here @ http://benbronstein.com/blog/?m=200910

Detail of the sketch for an illustration

another detail...

"Chimera Attack"

the full illustration

Timeline of work this week!

Here are your choices for today, Tuesday: 

FIRST

Complete the "Clementine Drawing" and print it onto the 13X19 paper......
Post an image of it to the blog and answer these questions about it:

1. What colors did you use?
2. How and where did you use VALUE, Color SATURATION, or EDGES to create the illusion of depth?
3. What is the best part of your image?

SECOND

Complete the "Cloth Study" that was homework-
1. Be sure you used each of these techniques: range of values, sharp and soft edges, careful drawing of the shapes of folds...
2. If there is a camera in the desk, photograph the drawing and post it to the blog.

THIRD

Start work on the Illuminated Letter" for the Deep End. Use Photoshop's brushes and only BLACK marks on white!

Examples are on the posting before this one...

ILUMINATED LETTERS

Creating an image for the "Deep End" school publication. Choose a letter and illustrate it, using line, dashes, and solid shapes. Create a variety of patterns, values and marks to make the letter interesting to the audience.

Here are some examples of midieval letter designs....

This image is from one of the most famous of these "illuminated books" called The Book Of Kells. It was created in Scotland around 800 AD by Monks, and contains the four Gospels. The book is world famous for it's lavishly decorated pages...

see more of it here @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells
and here @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells

BIG ACTIVE

Big Active has a collection of illustrators work that will surely inspire you!

I am particularly interested in the ink work of Vania Zouravliov, a Russian born master of line and value. He was a successful illustrator by the age of 13!

Here is some of his work-

Check out the BIG ACTIVE site @ http://www.bigactive.com/illustration.

And VANIA's site @ http://www.vaniazouravliov.com/

The "T-Shirt Drawing", a drapery study

Here's a quick one, with a great deal of skills used in one drawing...

Create a drawing of a draped cloth (a T-shirt in this case)...... with a "twist"- the drawing is created using WHITE charcoal on BLACK paper! You must work "backwards", building up the light values ad leaving the darks alone!

Here are some sample drawings of drapery....

By Durer!

The above drawing is by Aubrey Pugh-Ellis (Wolf Daughter Designs)

Dramatic Bag Drawing

The dramatic light and dark changes of values next to each other makes the bag seem real. They help create the creases you would see if you were really looking at a paper bag. The soft edges and darker values pushes the drawing back into space. 

- Jen :)