Deviation Actions
Description
This is the first obligatory assignment I actually LIKED in this 'class' because the facial planes figure we were drawing looked like Voldemort at about the 5th or so Horcrux. (Hence Name)
Other pieces that I did in this week were a gesture drawing of my friend Tasha (which I will not upload because I do not have her permission) and a Gesture shaded figure I titled "Looking Skyward" (Debating wheither or not to upload that one)
Artist Statement of the week:
What did I learn about the structure and planes of the human face … I assume you use the word learn as in ‘new information’ … Answer: Nothing. But if you mean what did I ‘observe’ about the planes of the human face, to that I say, in a sing-song manner, “Vold-e-mort, vold-e-mort. Ooo vold-e, vold-e, vod-e, VOLDEMORT! Dah da da dah dah…” (Referencing “Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise”) I say this because the human face, when broken down into simple planes, and especially when so pale, does remarkably look like Voldemort on about the 5th or so horcrux. Head completely bold, narrow nose (instead of the future snake-like slits for a nose), ear narrow and pressed close to the side of the head almost not there, lips small with little volume, and eyes almost devoid and menacing even without emotion behind them. Shading the face … I feel like all these questions are going to have the same answer and I really don’t want to sound mean so I’m not going to answer what I ‘learned’ about shading a face. Personally, given my distaste of charcoal that the whole piece was a success. I don’t tend to do real life people as much because it’s not my style but this block-ish figure was really fun. I didn’t encounter much difficulties besides I hatred for charcoal and after I had finished Voldemort’s left eye was distorted, but while drawing it honestly looked that way to me on the projector so I didn’t alter it. It could have been a simple tweak to just bring up the eye a bit if I was more familiar with charcoal and used to its texture, defiantly an incentive to work more with the medium but for this piece I like it because it, in my head, fits with its block-ish nature and above all looks cool.
I use gesture drawings all the time to lay out my figures so they aren’t real new to me, I just learned they were called gesture drawings. I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember so proportions are just eyeballed I honestly didn’t think much of it. My process: I honestly don’t think much of it, at this point it’s instinctual I guess. For example when I was drawing the first shaded figure the teacher came around and I was just staring at the paper thinking “what to do, there’s something off and I can’t put my finger on it” the teacher said to put in the ground line and shade the feet so it would make a shadow, so after I did that I realized it wasn’t the lower body it was the elbow (it was too low making the upper arm too long and covering a good portion of the belly). Shading didn’t feel out of control exactly- just messy, and I really didn’t have any ‘ambiguity’ (?) … doubt. It was about as much of a success as other drawings seeing as that’s just the way I draw I didn’t really meet any difficulties of significant remembering. It was just … the way it normally is.
