These images below are of a shoe I have.
For the sketch above, I wasn't looking (although it was right after drawing the sketch below)
For this sketch, I drew my shoe from different angles.
Above I gave the shoe different emotions, by using different types of lines, shading, texture and background to convey specific moods.
Above is a Still Life Story, if you will, of the shoe. IN the first picture, the shoe is next to a tooth brush, in the second, it is next to a glass of water, and in the third, it is on top of a pillow.
Your observational drawings are very good. Clearly you also have an excellent visual memory. It's more typical for drawings out of your head to look stylized or cartoonish - more like the shoes in the other parts of your assignment. It's very useful for you as an illustrator to be able to make things as realistic or stylized as you want. This is one of the ways that you'll develop a unique voice.
ReplyDeleteThe emotions/character part of the assignment is interesting too. You've chosen to tell us something about the shoes by their relationship to their environments - I'm assuming all are meant to be shoe boxes. This is a great story telling technique. I don't have a crystal clear sense of what each image is telling me, but I could see them all in "a day in the life" kind of story that would go along well with the third part of the assignment.
Your observational shoe drawing is very good, and these last three shoe images are equally good. They have a different "personality", and as I said, this gives you great range in your ability to depict subjects.
You've chosen a single, almost formal stance for your shoes that are always in profile. This creates a kind of humorous feeling as they are depicted in relationship to the other objects. Another thing that makes these drawings successful is that the pairings are not conventional - we don't expect to see a shoe and a toothbrush together. These are very clever and creative solutions to the assignment.
I like the frontal view of the shoe, it's not an angle we normally see so it's like a reminder that there is not only what the side view shows us.
ReplyDeleteThe simplicity of the shoe works well for the story at the end, so that it isn't mind boggling but instead presents things the way they are without preconceptions getting in the way.
I really enjoy the back view of the shoe that you chose as one of your angles. The emotion drawings are a little difficult to see but it might just be because of the whole taking pictures of your drawings. The story you told through interaction with other objects is really interesting and well done.
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