still life exercise
title: Henry Gosling (still life 01)
size: medium: white charcoal pencil on black drawing paper date of creation: August 25, 2023 |
This still life was an exercise on studying and drawing a subject from an unconventional perspective. moreover, this still life was an exercise in studying the shape and form as it was instead of attempting to tweak a subject to look the way one would wish it to be. in addition to this I had to use points relatively to my reference to correctly display the proportions of my subject. all of the objects pictured in this still life are motifs found in and around the classroom, which were organized into clusters by our professor. in other words, to create this piece I recreated an artists manually curated collage of found materials using charcoal and paper as opposed to the naturally occurring organic materials utilized in the the reference piece.the concepts dealt with in this piece are sophisticated to a high extent. in creating this piece I had to successfully abstract a subject into shape and value rather than viewing it as a series of rational objects. for instance instead of seeing a goose, I allowed myself to see and oblong rectangle struggling to balance the shape of a pear, sitting atop of an oval with two rectangles protruding from either of it's lower sides, each plagued with tendril like, webbed growths used for stability. in addition to this I had to use subject specific measures as guides to correctly display the proportions of said abstracted subject matter. for instance I measured all elements in this piece relative to the size of the gooses head, counting how many goose head lengths it would take to make up the length of each antler, vase, and sponge, and then using such measurements to go about drawing elements relative to the size of the gooses head on the page. the idea of creating a representation of a subject relative to your view of it is quite a basic one, however the actual mental block that came with attempting to let go and let a subject take control of the world that lay upon my canvas was a difficult one too overcome.
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