Friday 2 May 2014

Graphite Anatomy of Movement #1


This is a graphite sketch of a model demonstrating sequence of movement by moving slowly from position to position and took about 10 minutes in total.

The model was conveying movement and so would move into a new position and would hold for a brief time before moving onto the next position of the movement. Pausing long enough to quickly draw the model out. Very little shading or tone was added as this was not the primary focus of the drawing. All the focus was put into the gestures of the limbs and body language as well as into body proportions and foreshortening. The use of limited shading on the left and left-centre sketches has helped to add some depth and dimensionality to the sketches.


The piece does help to convey movement, more so in the sketches on the right which overlap each over and continue on from where the other ended. This helps to provide some illusion of movement, if the sketches on the left were also done in this way it would have helped to complete the feeling of movement in the piece instead of making it look like 2 separate pieces.

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