WEEK 1: 2nd Aug, 2019 Jay sir/Isha Ma’am
Who was Vincent Van Gogh?
A Dutch impressionist who made around 2100 paintings during his lifetime. He is known for one of his famous paintings called ‘The Starry Night’. It was painted by him when he was in an asylum in France. This painting is currently housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. All his oil paintings are displayed at Amsterdam Museum.
The movie, ‘Loving Vincent’ based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh was screened for viewing. The movie is made by over 100 artists, entirely depicted in oil paintings. It was made after one year of his death, when a young man tries to find out the reason for Vincent’s death.
The paintings in the movie focus on distinguishing the characters and the objects in the scenes by the use of different strokes which are asymmetrical in nature. The strokes are used to show movement in characters with the help of dark and light areas.
Inspired by this movie technique, ‘Charcoal Paintings’ can be made in a similar way. By establishing the right amount of pressure on the charcoal sticks, a good painting can be created. The sticks can be used to create strokes and lines of varied lengths and thicknesses.
Drawings of a dog and lion, made by me, with charcoal on a newsprint sheet.
WEEK 2: 9th Aug, 2019 : Jay Sir
Gesture sketches are basically the rough outlines of a particular object or human figure we want to draw. These sketches are drawn lightly as compared to the main drawing and thereby act as guiding lines while the sketch is made.
This lecture was all about making rapid Gesture figures within a time limit of maybe 10 seconds or 30 seconds in some cases. This process eventually helps us to improve the speed of the drawing and we can therefore eliminate all the unnecessary strokes involved in the drawing and make it look appealing by involving minimum lines.
Gesture sketches made by me
WEEK 3: 16th Aug, 2019: Jay Sir
A sketch can be improvised by adding more details to it which can be done by using techniques of Hatching, cross hatching, stippling, scumbling and scribbling. These techniques should be used in a way that they provide an idea of light and shadow of not only the scenery but also the human figures in it. It should give a definition of space and perspective so that the scenario looks appealing.
We clicked pictures of ten places (day and night) and sketched them out. It was very important to understand the lighting in the places and how it affects the entire scenario.
Sketches made by me using techniques of hatching and cross-hatching
WEEK 4: 23rd Aug, 2019: Jay Sir
‘Linear drawings’ are the sketches which are made by using just lines of different lengths and sizes. These lines help in providing shape to the object and also show the light and dark part of it. By placing the lines in a proper manner and at a considerable distance from each other, we can show different elements of an object.
The only restriction in this process was that we had to use a Pen to make these sketches instead of a pencil. While using pens, therefore, it became important that we noted every line placement in the drawing and tried to get it correct in as many minimum tries as possible.
Studying and observing the object is very important before starting to sketch it out.
