{"id":682,"date":"2020-04-23T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/?p=682"},"modified":"2020-05-06T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:38:00","slug":"screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/drawing\/screen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ink wash and vine on watercolor paper 15×22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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pen on paper 8×10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

X <\/strong>(If you like my suggestions below, or on the one of your mom–or any drawing you want to “repair”–you wouldn’t be the first artist to carefully paste a piece of paper over any area you want to change and redraw it. Or, do it digitally. Ask me if I can tell you more).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of notes. About the nose, the less said the better, especially in a contour drawing. Get in and get out as quickly and economically as possible. In a pen drawing this size this extends to other contours on the face as well, which you can see I’ve removed.<\/p>\n

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(and look how much better it looks with the color taken out of it, and increased\u00a0 contrast).<\/p>\n

I also took the hatching away from her top. It felt like an outlier (no hatching anywhere else) and it was detracting from the portrait. Easy to say in hindsight, of course, but a lesson for next time.<\/p>\n

Great line weights overall but the lamp shows signs you were getting fatigued or running out of time. Those lines are more random and less deliberate. I took them away and left fewer lines but put them down more intentionally. I see them as the call and response to the lines of the hair, so they need to be in the same “key.” You’re so good at this 97% of the time it doesn’t need saying, but this kind of drawing insists on a thorough and consistent performance…like this next one–brilliant.<\/p>\n

See below how much better it looks with white paper and\u00a0 higher contrast.<\/p>\n

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pen on paper 10×8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The only thing to improve here is the basket (?) and random papers on the floor at her feet. Like the lamp shade in the one above, these are too “phoned in.” The magic in your contour work all semester has been it’s very selective but unfailing attention to detail. Giving any part of the drawing less than your full attention breaks the spell and undercuts their magic.<\/p>\n

There’s a great perspective move here, though–we’re looking down into the basket, then we can see more foreshortened ellipses on the desktop, but then her eyes are clearly at our eye level, or maybe slightly above (driven home beautifully by that line in the background, which meets a line on the left wall inclining downward). The effect is that of a shifting point of view that guides the viewers’ eye up and down the space.<\/p>\n

And the woodgrain! Killer!<\/p>\n

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  X (If you like my suggestions below, or on the one of your mom–or any drawing you want to “repair”–you wouldn’t be the first artist to carefully paste a piece of paper over any area you want to change and redraw it. Or, do it digitally. Ask me if I can tell you more). … Continue reading “Screen Time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-week-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}