![]() Well, there was one pose where I just couldn’t stand any more ignoring of the form, and I quickly drew a rough approximation of the light on the form, below right. Heather showed examples of negative space, and we spent the entire 2½ hours finding and filling in negative space, from warm-ups through extended poses. The boundaries of negative shapes also can be the edge of the art piece, or the edge of another shape. Negative spaces which are bounded by the subject are called negative shapes. Negative space is the space surrounding the “subject”. The final drawing is shown first, followed by the initial 30-second and one-minute gestures, progressing up to 4-minute gestures, all of which I usually end up throwing away, and then the 15-minute silhouette drawings. In this post I have decided to also include all of my warm-up drawings, to show the differences in approach to each pose, and to give an idea of what is actually happening in a 2½ hour figure drawing session at Studio b. I had a lot of fun with this exercise, since I was thinking I would not be turning out anything worth keeping, which freed me to use some colors and textures I might not ordinarily use. ![]() Heather directed us to fill in the positive shape so that it reads as a single shape. ![]() Learning to accurately draw the contour comes first, and after that the artist decides what elements to exaggerate to make the contour more expressive. Our instructor Heather Clements says that when the contour is interesting, that’s half the battle. This week our focus was the silhouette of the figure, essentially the contour line which separates negative space from positive space. For several weeks at Studio b.‘s figure drawing sessions, we have been focusing on negative space.
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