Week 9

Continuing with the previous week I'm focusing on drawing more scenes from life in order to develop more intuition in perspective.

I drew the life drawing classroom as people were coming in so I got to compare a variety of people who were closer and further from me. The difference was more extreme then I expected.

This angle had some figures in it but more focus was on the environment. I spent a lot of time trying to comparatively focus on the hight difference of the mannequins on the left. The environment objects like the table were much larger in comparison to the easels I was focusing on, similar the figures in my first drawing. This surprised me for some reason.

I attempted drawing figures on the bus as this was another scenario where people wouldn't move too much. I drew another row to the seats and managed to confuse myself, the seats ended up oddly packed together and varied in size breaking illusion, but the foreground elements being as large as they are does help to make it feel like the viewer is actually in the seat of the bus. Even with the muddy midground elements I still think this helped give me a better understanding of figures in perspective along with the importance of consistency.

In a similar vain I did my next piece on the train. I could see less people unfortunately so I had to focus more on the environment. I tried taking it each element one by one with how I saw it, starting with a light sketch to make sure this idea would work. I moved my head up and down to try and capture the distortion of looking at the seat infront. I had to look around in order to capture the whole environment instead of keeping my head in a fixed perspective like I was taking a picture. It felt like a very new way of capturing the environment to me and one I feel was effective. There's a curve to the elements of the drawing in a way that feels natural enough when it comes to the components like the seats hights, the seats however have details that aren't completely consistent with this curve which does make the perspective look very off in places such as the trays. The seat to the right of the one infront of me feels very thin in comparison and could have benefited form a bit of perspective measuring. Annoyingly a lot of what looks wrong with that right seat is the bottom half which I had blocked out better but didn't seem to follow.

A reattempt at drawing a cat, they still look odd. Potentially have to do a separate study on cats. I tried drawing the cat that was on my lap in order to get more practice with organic shapes. while I think some of the individual elements look good, together there a bit of a of consistency when it comes to parts like the hands being different sizes. With this piece and the last one maybe I should put more focus into the initial light layout in order to make sure my proportions are consistent enough before going in with the details.