Exercise 1 - Single Moving Figure
How to represent movement is an interesting prospect, by definition drawings are static. That much is obvious, but how to demonstrate it takes some thinking. Here is a selection of the drawings I’ve produced over the last few months.
I’ve tried hard to not use any tricks to represent movement, I want to rely on correctly representing weight and centre of gravity to let the viewer now it’s a figure in motion.
With this one I tried to avoid using outlines, I worked with blocks of tone. Although there are some anatomical inaccuracies, I feel this is better than the previous ones.
This final image was inspired by some slow shutter speed photography I say while researching. It’s an interesting idea that deserves some further experimentation.
Exercise 2 - Groups of Figures
“People watching is a good way to understand human movement and interaction.” That’s true but currently illegal. That’s the story of this part of the course, take the brief and work out how to achieve something worthwhile without being able to actually look at real people. I would need to get a bit creative and rely on my memory. This informed my choice of medium; I wouldn’t be able to sketch something in front of me. I would need something that produced more abstract marks and allow me to be imaginative. I’d watched an interview with Maggie Hamlin where she talked about her daily routine, the first thing (after coffee) she’d do was to use a dropper and ink to create marks. I thought I’d give it a try.
I really like some of these, they were produced at speed and I feel some of them really capture the essence of being in a crowd. This technique really lent itself to this kind of task and I will definitely allow myself to work in this loose way more in the future.
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