#8 Figure Drawing Visual Library

Negative Shape Figures

with Wet Media

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Finding the Chi

The premise of Chi meditation technique is simple.

i. Many practitioners of it recommend that when inhaling, you think of taking life energy into your body.

ii. When you exhale, release that energy.

This breathing technique can be applied to almost all chi meditations and movements.

iii. When engaged in drawing gestural figures, think that you are recording a thread of energy moving around your body. Similar to one's breathe, this line appears alive, organic and reacts to your sensitive touch and pressure of your tool.

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R E F E R E N C E images

Richard Diebenkorn

Bay Area Artist

1922 - 1993

David Park

Bay Area Artist

1911 - 1960 (49 yo)

#5 Negative Shape Drawings

In drawings there are three basic elements of composition: the frame (the edge of the pictorial space) the positive the negative space The positive space is easiest to understand because we see it. Generally, it is the space occupied by your subject. Conversely, negative space is the space that is not your subject and people often simply forget about. Simply put, Negative space is the space that surrounds an object within an image. It is just as important as that object itself -- air is important for most every living organisims isn't it? N egative space helps to define the boundaries of positive space and brings balance to a composition. The negative space is defined by the edges of the positive space and the frame or border (the third element). Thus, part of our negative space is bound by the frame and another part is bounded by the positive sp...

Visual Lecture # Cezanne, Scheile, Dumas -> H20 Media

Paul Cezanne French 1839 - 1906 Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work was the foundation for transitioning from a 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different way of looking at subject matter towards the 20th century. His work eventually leads the way towards the beginning of breaking up space into smaller parts and cubes. Egon Scheile Austrian 1980 - 1918 Schiele was a protégé of Gustav Klimt. Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionist art. He died at the age of 28 of the flu. ...

#3 Sighting Strategies & Establishing Pictorial Space

The Materials VINE CHARCOAL Vine charcoal is a piece of charred willow. It comes in different softness/hardness varieties. Soft vine charcoal will produce dark gray value, Medium will be lighter, Hard produces the lightest value range. It moves very easily on paper. Its easy to manipulate, almost like clay. It's easy to blend with and remove with a kneaded or plastic eraser. COMPRESSED CHARCOAL Compressed charcoal is much darker. There is a bit of oil in it, and thus the values you can produce will get much darker than vine. The blackness you can produce is very rick and dark. Compressed charcoal also comes in pencil form. Compressed charcoal works best for fine details and for when you want to produce a rich shadow. Sighting & Measurement in Still Life Drawings Make use of a pencil, chop stick or other straight hand held tool that you can use to lay against the still life forms you see. This will help yo...

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