(DAY 25)
IN CLASS, NOVEMBER 24
-Due today – Upload final perspective project. Share link to LP post.
-Analog drawing of 1-2 chosen poses of a foreshorted figure on toned color paper in chalk and charcoal
(15 minute break)
-Continue figure drawing
-Homework review
Foreshortened Figure
Foreshortened and Chiaroscuro drawings (charcoal with white conte highlights) You will combine these elements in your in-class drawing -see definitions on handout
foreshortening, method of rendering a specific object or figure in a picture in depth. The artist records, in varying degrees, the distortion that is seen by the eye when an object or figure is viewed at a distance or at an unusual angle.
chiaroscuro, ( from Italian: chiaro, “light”; scuro, “dark”) technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects.
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- plumb and level, triangular and diagonal measurements and lines
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- creating an envelop of shapes
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- Frontal areas are emphasized
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- foreshortened head
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- Dead Christ, Andrea Mantegna
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- curve of figure, smaller feet
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- Michelangelo
Alaiyo’s stages
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- Alaiyo’s chiaroscuro drawing shown in developed stages. Note: white is added last
Drawing and Measuring the Figure
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(DAY 24)
IN CLASS, NOVEMBER 22
-Due today – Upload perspective documents
-Wednesday?
-Individual artist presentations (3-5 minutes)
(15 minute break)
-Individual artist presentations continue (3-5 minutes)
-Homework review
Reminders:
-Submit your Binx test by today to avoid missing classes the following week
-Drawing & Imaging Sketchbook Competition and Exhibition
Don’t forget about the Drawing & Imaging Sketchbook Competition open to all First Year students! A compilation video of all entries will be exhibited at Parsons. Prizes awarded to the winners! To enter:
- Your sketchbook does NOT need to be full
- Your sketchbook can include personal explorations and classwork
- Film a video of you flipping through your sketchbook (smartphone videos are fine)
- Video should be 1 minute or less
- Video should be well lit
- Video MUST be in horizontal (landscape) format
- Video should be steady (tripod filming is best)
- Your name should appear on one of the pages
- Non-conforming or poor quality videos will not be included
- Videos of well filmed sketchbooks can be found here
- Upload your video here
Entries must be received by November 27
Important Dates:
November 9 – 27: Students upload submissions
December 2: Video exhibition opens, winners announced
December 2 – 13: Video on view, 2 West 13th Street, 5th-floor monitor_____________________________________________________________________________
(DAY 23)
IN CLASS, NOVEMBER 17
-Due today – Final project half way completed, materials to work in class
-Work in class on perspective drawing
(15 minute break)
-Pin-up
-Homework review
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(DAY 22)
IN CLASS, NOVEMBER 15
-Due today – perspective exercises, drawing in progress with figure and grid, materials to work in class
-Student events, groups, https://bradshawdrawingimaging.wordpress.com/student-support/
-Sketchbook Exhibition/Competition (Please see email from this morning)
-Work in class on perspective drawing
-Desk crits and help with grids, elyptical shapes, arches, figure placement
-Review of remaining sketchbooks
(15 minute break)
-Continue with working on perspective drawing
-Homework review
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(DAY 21)
IN CLASS, NOVEMBER 10
-Due today – transfered drawing, materials to show, materials to work in class
-Mini-crit
-One-point perspective drawing exercises
-Review of remaining sketchbooks
(15 minute break)
-Continue with transfered drawing
-Homework review
Historical Examples of Perspective Drawings from Different Cultures/Viewpoints
Used less floor. More accurate than this photo
grid components extend beyond the page
Corrections
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(DAY 20)
IN CLASS, NOVEMBER 8
-Due today – Show your progress on the chiaroscuro study from class and three rendered figure drawings in your sketchbook
-Overview of working on location
-Travel to Grand Central Station
-Use the right and wrong choices for perspective drawing locations at the Grand Central Terminal images below to guide you
-If you would like to get feedback regarding your vantage point, send me a text with your photo
917-733-0469
-Meet me at the information booth at the designated time and return to the classrooom together
-Homework review
Examples of Perspective Drawings from the Early Renaissance
No one would deny that the painter has nothing to do with things that are not visible. The painter is concerned solely with representing what can be seen. —Leon Battista Alberti, 1435
In 1435, Leon Battista Alberti provided the first theory of what we now call linear perspective in his book, On Painting
The discovery of perspective is attributed to the architect Filippo Brunelleschi
Paolo Uccello was obsessed!
Overlay study of Uchello’s painting of the hunt
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Right and wrong choices for perspective drawing locations at the Grand Central Terminal (BELOW)
Benefitial views for the assignment
Non-productive views for the assignment
Drawing/Imaging (Sections A16) 