Gesture Sketches & Clay Moquette

Gesture Drawings Reflection Questions

Degree of Exploration (Stretch and Explore)

–      How well do your drawings capture the gesture of the figure? 

My drawings capture the gesture of this figure because you can see there is a movement being performed, but it isn't obvious what movement it is, giving it an abstractness. I think I captured the gesture pretty well. My original gesture was someone standing up with their arms raised up above their head, and I think that movement can be deciphered from looking at it carefully without it being too obvious or too oblivious.

–      How thoroughly did you explore the process of simplifying and “abstracting” the gestures in order to best capture your intended form?

I carefully looked at the gesture and deciphered ways to involve the negative into it in an abstract way. I made sure the piece wasn't too figurative, but at the same time wasn't too abstract that no one could tell what it was supposed to be.

-      In what ways have your intentions change over the course of your project so far?  What opportunities or occurrences led to these changes?

My intentions have changed over the course of the project so far because I started out with my drawing being more on the abstract side, but then as I made my clay moquette, I ventured more to give the sculpture more dimension and some more figurative qualities so there was a better balance of the two. The opportunity that led to this change was the building and molding of the clay moquette. If we hadn't done that, I wouldn't have been able to see that there was more that needed to be done in my sculpture. 

My container is a pint sized milk carton. It is a good size for my sculpture because my clay moquette is on the smaller side, and that is the way I like it.

Movement Sketches

Final Value Post

Reflection Questions:
I Stretched myself to get good borders on my pictures and I explored different line qualities. I engaged in the class by using up all time available to work on my projects and listen to any advice or critique given. I persisted through the project by keeping with it even throughout multiple mistakes. That I why I have many pencil marks that could not be erased. My persistance and engagement in these in these habits pushed me further to resolve my scales and the way my lines lined up. Mr O. taught me how to use your pencil and an angle and hold it up to see what angle you should draw your shape at. I had to redo the majority of my picture because my lines were off their correct angles, but I persisted through it and engaged in the comments Mr. O gave me to improve my drawing. My habits pushed me because I learned I had to develop new ones, like shading all the object to the way they appear. The photo paper felt more comfortable to me because I like the way that you can do another print so easily if you do mess up. It puts more pressure on me to take my time and make it perfect because I know you can't go back. The paper and pencil allowed me more expression because you can choose the pencil you use, the pencil lines, the pencil pressure, the way you draw objects, etc. You can basically do whatever you want on the paper with the pencil, when however with the photo paper you can only print on there the picture that you took. So you still have some expression with the pictures you take, but not nearly as much as you can with the pencil and paper. In the future, I will take my time more to improve my lines and line quality on the paper. For the darkroom and photo paper, I will also take my time to put it the picture in focus.