Module 5 - chapter 7

Bodies & Movement

I enjoyed doing this chapter. The idea of dividing the body into 1/8ths makes it so much easier to work out what goes where.

5.7.1
"Somewhere in the Barn" I do have  an articulated figure, I expect I will find it again later this year! Meanwhile I enjoyed drawing the figure to scale.

5.7.2
I made two versions of the articulated figure. The first smaller one, I fastened together with linen thread.  It was really tricky to try and get the thread tight enough and neat.  The result was OK but quite floppy. The second version as fastened with small paper pins, or mini brads as our friends across the pond would say.

5.7.3.
My first thought about 'poses' was yoga, since I did it for 20 years. I should go back to it really.

 

It really annoys me that I still can't put things side by side.  Opps I did it, but it will probably go wrong when it gets to 'publish'

Next I used the smaller figure to get more onto a page and make the beginning of a crowd.

then, blacked them in, cut them out and reproduced them onto painted paper, reversing on the pink.

Then played again, by adding another lot on top. On the pink I think it would look very effective with a bonfire put between the black and white figures, to look like light shining on the latter.

Back to my larger figure, which is easier to draw around without it slipping so much. Figures cut out of magazine and pasted onto paper, gouache added afterwards.

Another lot, some just drawn in outline, and three drawn on stupidly thin tissue paper, coloured, cut out and stuck on top of the drawn figures. Powdered Inktense rubbed over tissue to give more texture.

Finally another play with Picasa