Highly Detailed Finished Piece - Figure Drawing

Human Figure Drawing - Final Piece

This is a highly detailed final piece drawing using pencil and a putty rubber. This drawing shows a great sense of detail within the figures face and also within the figures clothing. Great time and detail has been spent on this drawing and it shows within the finished detail.

A bright, artificial light has been used on the right side of this drawing to create a contrast of light and dark upon the figures face and clothing. This creates the opportunity to show the great details of depth as they can be more easily picked out, as the light creates dramatic contrast from light to dark.

The composition has been well thought of in this drawing with the blank space behind the figures head to make the figure stand out more. The space opposite from the figure is covered with what is half a door. This fills a space that would have otherwise been a large blank space. This would have led the eye to this space, as it would really stand out. However, the shading of the door balances the whole picture and leads the eye back over to the figure.

This drawing has been well measured and proportioned and makes this drawing really stand out. The small little details within this drawing really set it aside from others as the accuracy can be highly appreciated.

Highly Detailed Finished Piece - Landscape

Landscape Drawing - Final Piece

This is a highly detailed final piece drawing using a conte crayon and white chalk. This drawing shows a very impressionistic view of a pathway that is surrounded by trees and shrubbery. This drawing depicts a very dull day with hardly any brightness in the sky and little highlighted areas within the drawing. However, the contrast in the gradients of shading make this drawing stand out and creates a sense of depth. Highlighted areas have been shown in the tree, lampposts and some of the small shrubbery, which shows a great contrast from some of the really dark areas within this drawing.

The sense of perspective in this drawing leads your eye down the path and into the distance with the trees and shrubbery appear to be caving in as the eye is led further and further down into the distance. The eye is also led to another path, which is leading of to the right of the drawing. This is helped by the banister with its highlighted area that helps the eye to concentrate on this area.

This drawing has a good sense of perspective and detail and shows a sense of curiosity as the path leads away into the distance and it is unknown what it around the corner. Using grey tonal colours also sets this drawing in a very dull day, as there is no colour to show any happiness within this drawing but sets a very interesting final piece.

Highly Detailed Finished Piece - Still Life

Still Life Drawing - Final Piece

This is a highly detailed final piece painting using acrylic paints on a canvas sheet of paper. A bright, artificial light has been used to create a shadow of the bonsai tree cast upon the wall behind it. This creates a dynamic view leading the eye from the tree, to the shadow and back again.

There is a piece of black drapery behind the bonsai tree which sets apart the contrast of light and dark from one side of the painting to the other. This painting gives a sense of impressionistic style where great detail has not been added but you can sense that it is there. This appears within the bark of the tree and also the soil, which the tree is rooted in. With the variety of different colours used to give the impression of detail.

The leaves that rest upon the table, in front of the tree cover a space that would have otherwise been blank. Giving a vibrant range of colour to this painting that would have other wise been full of quite dull colours. The plant pot also gives sense vibrancy with its turquoise colour, which is greatly highlighted with the bright light that also casts hard, dark shadows upon it.

The bright light used in this set up casts shadows upon the trees bark and branches, which makes them stand out from the dark curtain that rests behind them. This also gives a contrast of light and dark with the shadow that is being cast upon the tree.

This painting really stands out with its vibrant colours and tree as the main subject. However with the added elements of the light, it creates a really interesting painting. As the space where the shadow lays would have otherwise been quite blank and a waste a space but with this added elements it really helps the painting stand out.

Week 12 - Figure Drawing Facial Expression

Figure Drawing concentrating on Facial Expression

This is a 20-minute drawing using a graphite stick. This drawing shows the facial expression produced from the model. The figure has used his arms to rest on which pushes his hands into his face, scrunching up the face and creating folds within the skin.

The model appears to look slightly worried with the expression from his eyes. The expression on the models face should have been drawn more relaxed. The widths of his eyes have been drawn too wide making his eyes look very piercing creating a slightly worried expression upon his face.

Shading has been used to draw detail to the face emphasising on the expression of the figures face and creating detail within the folds of skin and shadow created from the spot light used for this drawing. There is a great contrast of lighting from the left side of the face to the right where the light is much stronger on one side to the other. The light picks out the raised areas within the face while the shadows creates a very detailed sense of depth.

This drawing has been very successful with showing detail upon the face. Getting the measuring correct is very difficult with getting the hands in the correct proportion and position with the face. This has been done very well and shows accurate proportions making this drawing look very realistic. However, the eyes may be slightly out of proportion especially the left eye which creates a bit of an unnecessary focal point within this drawing. However, with improving upon this could create a very successful drawing.

Week 11 - Figure Drawing Facial Anatomy

Figure Drawing concentrating on the Facial Anatomy, One

This is a 15-minute drawing of the facial anatomy. From this perspective the model was viewed upon a ¾ angle. This makes the drawing slightly more difficult to draw because the proportions are completely different more one side of her face to the other.

There has been some good, accurate measuring within this drawing and you can tell that it is Leslie the model. There is great detail around the lip area where shading has been used rather than hard lines to create the lips as well as the Philtrum and also the Nasolabial Furrow. This subtle detail defines the pictures and makes it stand out. Without this detail the drawing would look odd and would not be advanced drawing. 

Figure Drawing concentrating on the Facial Anatomy, Two

This is a 25-minute drawing using a black conte crayon and white soft pastel on a purple sugar papered background. This has been an artificial light used in this image to make one side of Leslie’s face a lot bright than the other. Giving the opportunity for great contrast of tones to be used.

Using this pink sugar paper has really made the detail stand out within Leslie’s face including the detail around Leslie’s lips and neck where the slight hint of wrinkles can be seen that were present on Leslie’s face. This detail gives the impression of Leslie by drawing what is seen and not trying to over up these details. The right side of Leslie’s face shows a great value of light, which is cast upon her face leaving the opposite side of her face in darkness. This great contrast of light and dark leads the viewer’s eye continuously around the drawing as the colour blends in from one to another.

To improve upon this drawing more accurate measuring could have been done, as the left eye appears to be to close to Leslie’s nose and also set to far down. This makes the proportions of Leslie’s face look a little odd but with improving upon this would make this drawing really stand out.

Figure Drawing concentrating on the Facial Anatomy, Three

This is a 20-minute drawing of the facial anatomy concentrating a great detail more on the shading, which has been created from the artificial light, which is casting shadows upon Leslie’s face. This drawing shows one half of Leslie’s face is darkness and the other in total brightness creating an opportunity to create great shading within this drawing.

There has been great detail used with the shading around the lip area where lines have been used and shaded to get this feeling of a very straight, inexpressive mouth, as the model appears to be sad. There has been no line drawn whatsoever for the bottom lip but only shading around the lip to represent where the lip would appear. This works really well with the picture because although you can’t see the lip you can imagine it is there.

There could have been a lot of improvements with the drawing as some of the measuring is quite far out from what it should have been. Leslie’s eyes appear to be too close together making her look slightly bogeyed. Leslie’s nose also appears to be too small making the area around the top of her nose and the centre corners of her eyes look as though it has been pinched and appears to be sunk in. Although it is a good depiction of Leslie these improvements could have really made this image stand out a lot more.

Week 10 - Figure Drawing with Tone and Colour in Skin

Figure Drawing with Tone and Colour, One

This is a 40-minute drawing using coloured pastels. The colours within this drawing work really well and blend in well together. A variety of different colours have been used to replicate the colours within the skin. There are very warm colours around the torso areas where the figures posture is very closed and very cold colours around the legs and knees where the figures posture is very open. This creates great detail and tonal value within this drawing and although it wouldn’t be thought that these colours would appears in the skin they work very well together.

There is great detail within the figures knees which sense of force of gravity as it is clear to see the leg on the right is taking a lot of the weight with the position of this leg being a lot lower compared to the leg on the left. There have been a great contrast of colours used around the figures legs and knees, which make them, really stand out with the cold blue colours and the really highlighted areas on the tops of the knees.

The proportions of this figure look relatively accurate apart from the figures head. The body and should seem to be a lot larger in proportion to the figures face and with greater measuring to make this more accurate would have really helped to improve upon this drawing.

Figure Drawing with Tone and Colour

This is a 30-minute drawing using coloured pastels. The soft use of colours within this drawing really stand out and make the skin on this figure look really smooth as they have been softly blended in to one another. The colours used in this drawing are very warm using a lot of pinks and yellows. With greens and blues used for the colder parts of the drawing. The darkest browns used to create the darkest shadows within the figures body have also been used in the green drapered cloth to help blend these two features together and help with the contrast of colours.

There is a great sense of proportion and foreshortening used in this drawing which really helps to make this drawing stand out as the body is elongated from one side of the page to the other helping the viewers eye to go back and forth from one end of the figures body to the other.

To help improve upon this drawing a background could have been used to have a sense of gravity and not a body floating in mid air. It would also have helped ground this figure in and set a scene to where this drawing has been drawn.

Week 9 - Figure Drawing with Gravity and Drapery on the Human Form

Figure Drawing with Gravity and Drapery, One

This is a 10-minute drawing using a black conte crayon and a white chalk on a pink sugar papered background. There is a sense of strong light, which is shining from behind the figure highlighting strong areas onto the figures face and the clothed drapery. The chalk acts as the highlighter creating great detail within the figures face, which helps pick out the facial features giving this drawing a more emotional feeling as the figures facial expressions appear to be sad.

There is good sense of form within the top half of the drawing however, the proportions for the lower half of the body seem to be a lot smaller than what is naturally there, which creates an unintended focal point. Rather than the viewer looking at the contrast of shadows and highlights the eye is led towards the wrongly measured part of the drawing, which is also sat on a table that doesn’t look quite accurate. The table seems to be leaning to one side and there should have been less table shown where the figure was sitting on it.

With more accurate measuring and a contrast of darker shadows this drawing could have worked very well. There is a good sense of detail within the figures face, which makes this drawing really stand out.

Figure Drawing with Gravity and Drapery, Two

This is a 15-minute drawing using a black conte crayon and a white chalk on a yellow sugar papered background. The proportions of this figure work really well and appear to be really accurate. The hands and feet show good form and is clear to see the direction in which they are facing. The figures legs have been crossed over but cannot be seen as the clothed drapery is covering this however; this can be seen with the twist of the legs pointing the feet in different directions.

The contrast of dark shadows and highlights seem a bit confusing in this drawing. There is good contrast of the figures face, which shows details of the facial features however, the shadows and highlighted areas, seem to get lost within the drapery and is unclear to see where any of form lye’s within this. The shadows and highlights seem to overlap one another with very little middle tonal value. Creating a great contrast from one to the other would have really helped this drawing to stand out. Also creating some shadows within the white sheet the figure is laying on would also help bring the detail out and not make it look like just a really highlighted area within the drawing.

Figure Drawing with Gravity and Drapery, Three

This is a 30-minute drawing using a graphite stick and soft coloured pastels. The main focal point within this drawing is the drapered cloth covering half of the figures body. This is because of the rich contrast of colours, which have been used. Lighter colours have been used for the highlighted areas within this piece of drapery and darker colours have been used to create the shadows created by the folds and overlapping material. The idea behind using coloured pastels with contrast to the graphite stick was to make this drawing stand out more. This drawing does stand out but takes the viewer away from any detail within the figure and leads the eye to where this entire colour is.

More practice is needed to get this style correct as it could be mistaken for simply a big blob of colour that looks like it could be there by accident. The idea was to help blend all these colours together and have great contrast against the grey tonal colours of the figures body. However, the drapery creates too much of a focal point and leads the eye away from what was important in this drawing which was the human figure.

The idea behind this may have worked better with slightly different colours or a different style creating this piece of drapery. There should have been more detail within the figure and less on the piece of drapery, which would have made this drawing work a lot better.