Making Comparisons
One of the most important things to learn besides the basic strategies to unlocking our visual experience is to learn how to self-correct one’s work. I teach this technique to all my students regardless if it is a sit down class or an on-line course. As a student of drawing, one needs to develop one’s eye hand coordination. Your brain needs to accept what appears on the retina of one’s eye as an accurate representation of the world. By making comparisons we test that visual phenomena and come to understand its relationship to our drawing. There are 3 types of comparisons that we will make: Horizontal, Vertical and Proportional. In this video lesson, I will describe the method to finding and using comparisons.
Assignment
Materials:
- 18 x 24 pad
- Charcoal
- Sandpaper pad
- Rag
- Kneaded Eraser
- Drawing Board or Amazon box
- Brush handle or a straight stick like thing-cooking spoon etc., to use to make comparisons
- 3 Onions
Assignment: to produce 1 sheet of 2 different onion compositions using comparisons and corrections through redrawing.
Set up 3 onions on your table. Take your pad of paper, held vertically, and fold in half to mark two separate areas, one for each composition.
Sketch the onions using the 4 strategies. Make comparisons using vertical, horizontal and proportional comparisons. Leave these lines on your sheet of paper so I can clearly see them. Re-draw any object, in part or whole, to get its comparison correct.
Upload this exercise to the assignment section.
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Secondly, watch the Technique Video, “Measured Drawing” and answer the questions in the assignment section [Assignments on toolbar]. Follow the same procedure as previous video. T/TH, Due: ; M/W, Due:
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