Week Four

These are my directed study quick sketches. Each are drawn from an angle in which foreshortening will have to take place in the sketch. 

This sketch took 22 minutes. I used a 4B pencil for this sketch of a hair dryer. The focus of this drawing was to get a sense of foreshortening along the blow tube. The end of the dyer is bigger in proportion to the front and higher up so that you are able to view the sketch as though it was moving further away. The shading around the rim of the dryer is good as it gives the object a nice form, as well at the different tonal shading going down the handle of the dryer adding more interest to the image with greater depth and detail. The shadow underneath the dryer compliments the overall drawing as it helps to give the overall picture good balance. This picture could have been improved by varying the tonal values of the shading going from the back of the dryer around to the buttons on the handle. Another negative would be that this picture looks too flat and doesn't have much dimension to it, possibly due to the over usage of hard lines.

This quick sketch took 12 minutes. It consists of looking onto the smaller face of a tissue box, drawn with a 2B pencil. The focus of this drawing was to get a sense of foreshortening along the length of the box. As you can see, the further away the eye goes along the side the smaller their width gets, giving a sense of distance. The overall shading of the box is average, with different tonal values on different faces depending on where the light was hitting the box. The shading on the tissue is good as you can see its form and it has good volume to it, being able to distinguish where the folds lie. The arrangement of the box on the paper is good as it has a nice blank space in the top right, which creates a nice balance. This sketch could have been improved by altering the quality of line and the quality of shading. The overall proportions are correct which makes the picture more pleasing to look at.

This sketch of a toaster took 27 minutes using a 2B pencil. The focus of this drawing was to get a sense of foreshortening along the length of the toaster. This picture was drawn from above the object, creating a more interesting angle. We can recognise the foreshortening by the compression of the top of the toaster, how it looks squashed, also the cable that is running around the outside gets gradually smaller in size, demonstrating this as well. The overall tonal values of the shading have worked well as you can see where the light is hitting the object, especially on the side of the toaster with the white mark, showing that the material of the toaster is shiny in order to reflect light like that. The quality of the shading however is maybe not so good as it looks quite rushed and some of the lines are all over the place. The overall form and proportions of the toaster are good, although the object looks strange as it has bent round, if the quality of shading had been improves then this problem would have been sorted out.