Friday, 19 July 2013

Three leaves ahead! (sketches)

 Here I am again writing about sketches that I've done in 2010. These were leaves. It was an exercise that consisted in drawing the same still life object, three times, with different techniques: Line, light-dark and coloured. 

  • Line: 

             

  This was a simple drawing, the first I've done from the three. The only thing I had to do was drawing the lines, nothing else.

  • Light-dark:

            


 In the second, I had to draw the object again with grey scales to give the illusion of three-dimensionality. Although the illusion was not well conceived, since it's barely noticeable the three-dimensional leaf. It looks more bi-dimensional than three-dimensional. Being it a leaf which is almost two-dimensional it self, and  the point of view being from the top, it was quite hard for me to draw it three-dimensionally.

  • Coloured:

             

  The last one saddened me a bit. I had a deadline to finish the exercise and it was over before I could blink twice. Really, I was quite slow at the time then I lost track of time and didn't finished it. After that I lost interest in actually finishing it, since my grade had already been decided with the unfinished drawing. But at least I learned a lesson: Work as faster as you can and don't get distracted. Whatever you have to do, do it anyway; it doesn't matter if it's hard or easy it's better to see it finished.

 


 All the drawings were drawn in A3 paper, but at the time I didn't know how to draw them in the center of the sheet. I was afraid of drawing it with bigger proportions as it was supposed to be (it was one of the points of the exercise) so I ended up drawing them so small to the point that I could have drawn them in an A4.

 

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