1324QCA Drawing Foundations
concepts, techniques and structures of drawing practice
Queensland College of Art,
South Bank,
Griffith University
Semester 1
Year: 2020
Drawing is foundational to the fine arts, design, photography, film, fashion, jewellery, games, architecture, engineering, software and networking, the performing arts, advertising, media, the sciences and mathematics (to name a few). In this fine arts foundation course, I have learnt fundamental drawing skills in the broad context of drawing’s conceptual and historical compass.
A subtractive drawing is erasure and focuses on light values, being a reversal from an additive process that tends to be focused on outlines and shadows.
Images: Sourced Queensland College of Art, Griffith University resources, https://bblearn.griffith.edu.au/.
Resolved Drawing Outcome: Charcoal Willow, kneadable eraser on A1 Cartridge.
Finalising the reduction for the 'Sinister'' mood I've created highlighting within the lighter areas of the top of the skulls, stones and the teeth as well as deepening the tones with the darker eye sockets and hollow nose regions.
Resolved Drawing Outcome: Ink applied with bamboo pen, fine brush over charcoal pencil.
Skulls applying sighting and lighting with 3 gradient reduction process of bamboo ink and water and fine brush over charcoal pencil. The mood conveyed for this drawing was a little more comical and cartoon based largely inspired by JULIEN ADOLPHE DUVOCELLE and whimsical in character establishing a collage of skulls loosely applied with a succession of short strokes. Adding gradient tones where necessary. I deliberately allowed the drops of ink to appear as a form of degenerative bone formation.
Images: Sourced Queensland College of Art, Griffith University resources, https://bblearn.griffith.edu.au/.
Chiaroscuro is an Italian term that means ‘light-dark’, chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark. It is used to describe drawings that apply systems of value to give illusions of form and space on a 2D surface by translating lighting effects.
Resolved Drawing Outcome: Charcoal Willow on A1 Cartridge.
The goal was to explore the translation of observed phenomena (busts and environment) into a 2D graphic representation. This involved a combination of plotting the measurement and angles and then adding tonal value as well as pulling back from creating a sketchy style and thinking more about how light and shadow are smooth in nature.
Kinetic Body, Gesture, Movement, Performance
One of the great deceptions in the practice of life drawing is that the human body can be utterly static. It has become an assumption in life drawing that the model will engage in a very strange sort of endurance performance. It’s called posing and requires that a human body remain absolutely motionless for anywhere from 30 seconds to an hour. Professional models take great pride in the skill and concentration required to perform in this manner.
[R] Resolved Drawing: Willow Charcoal, white pastel, diluted and undiluted ink washes on A1 Cartridge.
Using a combination of consistent strokes relating to curves an outlines within the scene drawing without stopping. Then drawing in more detail pushing through some of images of the dancers using white pastel from the drawing kit followed by ink washes that are diluted and undiluted.
From the root [ortho=straight + graphe=drawing], orthographic drawings show a single, flat view in schematic terms. An orthographic view of the top of a cylinder and an orthographic view of a sphere would appear the same: a circle. Artists, photographers and designers often begin first sketches as orthographic drawings as a means of understanding a space, object or idea.
[L] Drawing One
In this exercise we observed a camera within its orthographic proportions. Sections, front, back and side. I was a little challenge having to pull back as I like to draw what I see in perspective. It was a fun and rewarding exercise executed in a combination of mediums ranging from ink, charcoal, graphite ad pencil.
[R] Drawing Two
1 point perspective, graphite, 4B & 8B on A1 paper using a series of lines and cross hatch shading to build up depth and tone.
Execution of a one point perspective analysis of a camera in studio time. This drawing in week three required problem solving and a series of guides deliberately left in to show the diverging into the vanishing point. I was able to create a drawing of a camera in 1 point perspective and evidenced by drawing a series of guides using methods learnt in class.
