{"id":281,"date":"2020-04-01T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T12:50:36","slug":"grace-bt-rustic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/grace-bt-rustic\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace BT Drawing in Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First, use Details\/Structure, Highlights, and Selective (in Snapseed)\u00a0 to increase the contrast and strengthen the reproduction:<\/p>\n

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And in the drawing itself…<\/p>\n

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1. Use a barrier sheet to avoid smudges.<\/p>\n

2. Make horizontal lines horizontal and the few vertical lines vertical. This would create a more uniform visual pressure across the whole composition, the better to examine the compartmentalized “evidence” in this tableau of faux rustification (to pick up on your take).<\/p>\n

3. I suggest cropping it on the right (as I’ve done in my version, just FYI) so that the fireplace is centered. A composition that’s almost symmetrical but not quite feels like a misfire (just as a point of view that’s almost parallel to the picture plane but not quite also misses the mark).\u00a0 By squaring up and balancing the image our attention moves more easily to the real subject–your graphic interpretation of all those great textures and visual anecdotes.<\/p>\n

Cropping the window also reduces the eye’s temptation to slip out the window–you want to keep our attention indoors with all these visual clues.<\/p>\n

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