Week 5 Overview
Intro to Drawing
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Week 5 (10/8) Keyline Drawing
Keyline Drawing
This drawing idea owes much to skeletal anatomy drawing. Artists who have that knowledge often find it a useful technique, and those who don’t can find it an introduction to that fascinating study. It is an approach that is very useful for drawing gesture and movement, but even a static subject such as a building has a ‘skeleton’ and a plant or flow of water has a direction line of movement so it is applicable to those subjects too! Remember, keylines describe the structure not the outline, as that sits over the musculature.
Gesture Drawing
The Ten Ways of Gesture
Strengthen and refine the ability to employ the mind’s and body’s FULL drawing potential to your unique vision of the subject. Gesture ranges from early exploration of the subject and drawing field relationship with “ticking” to mapping out of forms and structural relationships with sweeping motions or value strokes.
The search for gesture at the outset of a drawing is visually logical for two reasons:
Gesture informs our drawing work by:
La Grange Art League La Grange, IL 60525
T 708-352-3101
M 312-505-4822
kelleyquinnclark@gmail.com
Week 5 (10/8) Keyline Drawing
Keyline Drawing
This drawing idea owes much to skeletal anatomy drawing. Artists who have that knowledge often find it a useful technique, and those who don’t can find it an introduction to that fascinating study. It is an approach that is very useful for drawing gesture and movement, but even a static subject such as a building has a ‘skeleton’ and a plant or flow of water has a direction line of movement so it is applicable to those subjects too! Remember, keylines describe the structure not the outline, as that sits over the musculature.
Gesture Drawing
The Ten Ways of Gesture
Strengthen and refine the ability to employ the mind’s and body’s FULL drawing potential to your unique vision of the subject. Gesture ranges from early exploration of the subject and drawing field relationship with “ticking” to mapping out of forms and structural relationships with sweeping motions or value strokes.
The search for gesture at the outset of a drawing is visually logical for two reasons:
- It is the necessary basis for all the drawing the follows.
- It cannot enter a drawing already underway without starting over.
Gesture informs our drawing work by:
- Establishing proportions or scale relationships between parts of a subject.
- Establishing the placement or location of parts.
- Establishing the particular “tilt” or position in space of parts. Establishing boundaries or shapes of parts and parts to whole.
- Giving an overall “map” or formal visual order to the whole.
- It is both economical and authoritative in execution.
- It is a primary visual analysis of the volumetric or structural state of the parts.
- The first general consideration of mass, space, shape, line, value, and texture as dynamic elements of the organization and composition.
- Shows the relationship of value or tonal differences between parts.
- It is the drawings emotive spirit - your spirit and energy - and its essential expressive nature.
Keyline Drawing
Gestural Samples - using mass + line
Exercises
1. Keyline Figure Study
2. Keyline Animal Study
3. Rapid gesture drawings X 10
2. Keyline Animal Study
3. Rapid gesture drawings X 10