sectional self portait3 vine charcoal on paper 22x30
sectional self portrait1 vine charcoal on paper 22x30
These are two parts of a three-piece nude self portrait done for my Life Drawing class; mid-section omitted from this post, of course. I tried to make these so that each one would serve as its own composition as opposed to being three parts of a larger whole. While making them, I tried to see the body not as a complicated 3-dimensional structure wrapped in skin, but rather as a series of shapes (and lines) reflected in a mirror and how these shapes are related to one another while taking into account their varying tones and edge states . I was also trying to avoid being a slave to the clarity of the reflection in front of me. By this, I don't mean that I was intentionally trying to draw the figure inaccurately or disproportionately, which occurred in some areas as a function of my inability to fully connect the image that I see with my eye to the picture I draw with my hand. Rather, I was trying to pull back on the finish of the drawing in order to put more emphasis on the drawing-part of the drawing and less so on the object-part of it.