Week 9 - Life Drawing - Gravity and Drapery on the Human Form

 

10 minute sketch, Charcoal

 

In these life drawing sketches the main focus was drawing drapery on the human form and how gravity causes material to hang and cling to the body giving it weight. This sketch shows the following theory:

 

Positives:

•  Good use of planing lines for the shoulders, spine and hips has helped to map out the   positioning of the body, how they angle and  twist, it has also helped to map the correct proportions of the body and limbs.
• The use of crinkled lines and shading helps to create a impression of creases and wrinkles where the fabric bends by the legs and hangs off the shoulders.
• Good amount of pose and posture giving the impression of resting on the table.

Negatives:

• Lacking in detail in the limbs like the hands, feet and face where they need more shape and picking out detail in the finger, toes and facial features. 
• More emphasise on how the cloth drapes off the body and how it bends at joints would improve the sketch.
• Shading and tonal value is needed to show of where light is hitting the fabric and highlights would help give an indication of what it is made of. 
   

5 minute sketch, Charcoal

 



 This sketch was a quick 5 minute study of how drapery interacts with the human form, this sketch is to show how fabric is affected by gravity and how it hangs off of the body. The theory shown in the sketch is as follows: 

 

Positives:

•  Nice, curved and flowing lings which help to show of how the fabric drapes of of the shoulders, down the back and off of the fore-arms and elbows.
• Good posture and pose seen in the model as the arms cross to grasp the coat stand and how the body is positioned standing back straightened.
•  Nice amount of proportion in terms of the size of the cloth and the limbs, head and torso.

Negatives:

• Needs more tonal values to show the type of material the cloth is made of and also where light hits the it and where the shadows are cast.
• More detail is needed in the hands to show how the model grasps the coat stand with her fingers and detail in the face to show express.
•  Background shading is needed to plant both the stand and the model on to the floor and where the light is coming from.