Figurative Modelling Part III

On the 19th of November, I had my third session of figurative modeling, this weeks session was divided into four parts: Life drawing, study presentation, body parts sewing, and sculpting exercise.

Life drawing

For life drawing, we did 10 of 10-second drawings, 10 of 20 Second drawings, five of one-minute drawings, (for each pose we were to only draw or shade in negative space around the outside of the figure) two of five-minute drawings (With more detailed exploration of form and softness conveyed through the details of lines) and to put two of the 10-minute drawings (for these we had to carefully consider the positioning of the figure into the piece of paper, showing what is expressed if the figures positioned.

During the middle of the session, I and my class experience three of three-minute exercises where we stand or sit still where the model was in order to get a sense of relation in court and possibly a sense of our bodies balance and even slight alteration

Stitching

During the first half of the afternoon, I and my group continued our stitch work on fabric body parts, for this session, we made feet, I made two.

first I drew the outline of the lower part of my leg (1 centimeter thicker), I did this on a piece of fabric that was folded up, so once sewn together it would create the other half when cutting it out.

After that, I made a 3-dimensional one, for this, it had to be split into three parts, (The left half of the leg, the right half and the bottom foot) For the left and right halves, I did what I did for the first leg, except without sewing the bottom, then after that, I traced the bottom of my foot, (again, a centimeter thicker) next I had to cut small lines at the bottom of the main foot (this was so when I sew the main foot and the bottom together, I would be able to move certain parts around to help it stitch together), Once I sew it together, I went over a few areas to make it more secure, I was pretty happy with the end result.

Sculpting exercise

For the final exercise of the afternoon, I and my group were taught step by step on sculpting feet.

First, we took a lump of clay and started by sculpting the bases by making them into kidney shapes, then took another lump and placed it on top to create the ankle and smoothed it together, using the clay tools we drew two lines from the ankle, one leading to the big toe and the other leading to the pinky toe.

Once they were in position I started drawing out were the toes would be and then cut them in, after that, I then removed some excess clay around the toes and base to form the foot.

Once the shape of the foot was finished, I then added a few more details by trimming some areas, adding toenails and rougher texture to make it more life-like, In the end, I was happy with the result.

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Figurative Modeling Part I

On the 12th of November, I had my first class on figurative modelling, To prepare for our induction each of us was tasked in printing out an image of a figurative model art piece that interested us, For me, I chose the work of Michael Flynn.

Introduction

In the opening presentation, we were introduced to multiple figurative model artists such as Harry Alley, Christina Cordova, etc, next, we were told to analyze the art pieces by artists we chose using the three identities such as A particular way of thinking about the ideas, a particular way of finding relationships between ceramics and a particular way of presenting outcomes such as curation, installation or photography.

Sculpting exercises

For our first exercise of the day, we were given pieces of raku clay and use it to create our own multiple sculptures of the body that helped find the thinking, finding and presenting of sculpture work. These included parts of the body, the surface of the human skin and textures.

Hand Stitch Part I

For the first half of the afternoon, we made a start on making our fabric plaster hands, For this week we had to trace our arms (only a centimeter wider) on the fabric, place a few pins to secure it in place, then I proceeded to sew around the tracings, once it was sewn, I then cut the arm out.

Life Drawing

For the final exercise of the day, we had a few life drawing exercises, This included 10 of 10-second drawings (these included the core lines, gravity, and notation of the body), 10 of 20-second drawings, (these included core lines, the undulation of soft flesh, and punctuation of what it feels like to be in the body) 5 of 1 minute drawings (these included core lines, softness and a different area of focus) and finally two five minute drawings (for each drawing, I had to focus on different areas of the body and to carefully consider the relationship between skeletal structure and skin qualities that surround it).

A few of my sketches:

Five Minutes 20 Seconds

1 Minute

10/10/18 (Stitch Part III)

On the 10th of October, I and my group had our last stitch session for this I did a little more work on my spider by filling in a few gaps, once I finished it I started work on a new sewing piece, this time I decided to use dissolvable, the picture I chose this time was a drawing of me I drew in my personal drawing book.

First I traced the drawing onto dissolvable, then I chose my fabric then hooked them both on the hoop and started sewing, I went over as many details as I could, once I finished the stitching then took it out of the machine and left it in a bucket of water for TBA minutes, once I took it out of the water, I left it to dry.