{"id":1098,"date":"2020-04-28T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2020-05-05T00:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T04:43:01","slug":"ian-strudwick-portrait-drawing-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/ian-strudwick-portrait-drawing-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Strudwick – Portrait Drawing 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beautiful drawing, Ian, and a very thorough exploration of the Degas. Curiously, like Ben\u2019s treatment of the same image, your features are oversized. Also like his they\u2019re nevertheless almost<\/em> physiologically possible, but just a bit too large\u2014those eyes could never fit in those sockets, but it’s a distortion that makes them very expressive. Also very well modeled.<\/p>\n

One consequence is that that they take up more than their share of the face, so that the space between the nose and the ear, on our right, should be wider. This is also true because you made the head somewhat too narrow to begin with (the negative space on the left is too wide).<\/p>\n

Great exploration of value and of Degas\u2019 touch, including that reflected light on her upper lip. That tells me you were really looking. I commend you for not trying to show us more of the eye on the left than he did\u2014it\u2019s hidden in shadow. Allowing the “whites” of the eye to get the dark is a good example of overcoming a major preconception.<\/p>\n

The light on her cheek on our left is a little too light; the shadow on the nostril on our right a little too dark; and the highlight on her lower lip a little too dark, but small matters\u2014nicely done.<\/p>\n

Good job on the hair as well, although you\u2019ll notice the lines representing hair disappear in the highlight on his. Don\u2019t be so dogged in reporting all the strands. Note how few of those lines he actually includes.<\/p>\n

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Good work–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beautiful drawing, Ian, and a very thorough exploration of the Degas. Curiously, like Ben\u2019s treatment of the same image, your features are oversized. Also like his they\u2019re nevertheless almost physiologically possible, but just a bit too large\u2014those eyes could never fit in those sockets, but it’s a distortion that makes them very expressive. Also very … Continue reading “Ian Strudwick – Portrait Drawing 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-portraiture-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}