Drawing Class
I am putting these here under my contextual studies blog
posts because we were focusing on how to portray narrative within our artwork
which is something similar to what we have been working on during our various
CS classes so I felt it was appropriate to show them here.
As a group we decided that this guy was having a rough
time with his love interest and that he had probably been left by the love of
his life and was now feeling depressed having found a shoe in his house which
was reminding him of her.
#1
In narrative sketch 1 we see the man
sitting on a chair, alone, holding the shoe of his lover. His position is
uncomfortable and slouchy to represent how he has “given up”. There is a large
canister on the floor suggesting her is going to drink something bad (alcohol
or poison perhaps?), this is signified by the mug sitting there.
#2
In narrative sketch 2 we see the man has
carelessly thrown the shoe away to the floor and is now drinking the substance
from the container which is believable because the container has seen movement,
it is lying on the floor now. We figured he wouldn’t care if he spilt it or
knocked it over and this suggested more in terms of showing narrative that he
had an interaction with it.
#3
Here is narrative sketch 3 and we can see that
the man has passed out from the substance he was drinking. Is he dead though?
The shoe is back in his hand, does this suggest he did the wrong thing but it
was too late? The mug is now collapsed but still in contact with his hand to show
he fell whilst drinking (the cup and hand weren't too visible from the angle I
was drawing).
This is the first life drawing session where I have been
happy with the results and proud to post them on my blog. #2 has a bigger head
than I meant to give him but I am happy with the rest of the proportions. #1 is
a tad too wide and I couldn’t quite get his feet right but ultimately it looks
correct. #3 is my favourite but it was the one I thought would be hardest. The
shading under the chin makes your eye read the image in a more 3 dimensional
way, it makes you believe he is looking upwards. I am also really happy with
how the legs look as well as the rough shape of the feet. I think the
proportions are best in this sketch.
So, how does this link into my contextual studies
project? Well, it was a project about constructing a believable world and story
around this guy in 3 drawings. In other words, we were creating a coherent
narrative AND world for our improvised story. It was a really fun experience.
