Week 8 - Figure Drawing Anatomy Refresher

Anatomy Refresher, One

These are 1.5-minute sketches created from a continuous line drawing. With this drawing the conte crayon never leaves the paper. This very quick style of drawing has a very dynamic feel and shows great flow and fluidity throughout these images. They have a very relaxed feeling towards them as they flow with so many different lines to get the overall shape right with lines filling up some of the blank spaces within these drawings. Many of the lines aren’t correct but these can be improved upon by going over the same lines until it is right.

Anatomy Refresher, Two

This is a 15-minute drawing using a black conte crayon and white chalk on a brown sugar paper background. This drawing has a great sense of depth to it by using the highlighted and darkened areas to pick out the overall shape of the figure. Even though the drawing is not absolutely anatomically correct because of his legs being too short for his body you still get the overall feeling of this drawing.

The white chalk shows the most highlighted areas of light that is cast upon this figure, which contrasts from the very dark shadowing using a black conte crayon. These contrasts of colour create a very dramatic effect that work well with the sugar paper being used as the base colour. The source of light also casts great shadows upon the floor created from the figures body. This plants the figure firmly on the floor creating the sense that he is standing and not floating in mid air.

To improve upon this drawing more measuring could have been done to get the figures body more anatomically correct. With a little sense of a background could also improve upon this drawing without taking away the main focal point.

Anatomy Refresher, Three

This is a 17-minute drawing using a black conte crayon and white chalk on a green sugar paper background. The sugar paper creates a mid tone colour for this drawing with the black creating the shadows and the white creating the highlights. This has a great effect as it shows depth to this image with very little effort.

The light picks up on the twist in the figures body created from the curvature of his spine. Using the black conte crayon to pick out the shadows make possible for the spine to really stand out as the white shows where the spine sticks out and the black where the shadow is cast upon. This creates a very natural, 3d effect as this is what it looks like in real life. The black conte crayon has also been used to pick out the shadows created from the folds within the figures skin to show a very natural positioning of the figures posture.

To improve upon this drawing having some of the back ground lightly sketched in would give the impression of the figure sitting in a room rather than in mid air and would improve upon the overall appearance of this drawing.