This post is about a two week project. We were asked to bring in a pair of shoes that was to be the main focus of the sessions. I chose a pair that I hardly wore. One of my classmates brought in a pair he’d found on his way to the class. Funny guy. Always has a funny story to tell. The first couple of tasks concentrated on composition and negative space.
Above are drawings of shoes I created. The first two from right to left are from the class and the third is a quick sketch from home. For the middle drawings we were tasked with a compositional exercise as well as a white space exercise. For the composition exercise I took time to position the shoes on the canvas i.e. drawing a central vertical and horizontal line, and later working on the important shapes. For the white space exercise, it was more abstract because of the shading. So I was working outside in. The drawing to the left was the final drawing on an A1 piece of paper. More detailed. Although I failed to finish it I was fairly satisfied with what it would look like once complete.
Michael's Monde 