This is my research on Figure Drawing for one coursework.
These images are examples of other artist's work including Degas. These influenced my drawing.
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This picture by Degas is brown on brown and is very effective. It is a fast sketchy style and he has left the legs partly unfinished for the mind to imagine which is very effective. His hilighting in white finishes the picture off nicely. I like the folds on his left arm. |
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Here Degas has concentrated predominantly on the folds and contours in the scene. The rest is left to imagination. In my piece I want to create these folds. |
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These drawings of ballet dancers are drawn very fast and Degas was trying to capture a single frame in time so he had to work quickly. |
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Here Degas has only drawn the shadows and this is very effective because your mind makes up the rest. Also I think the select use of colour in the hair is brilliant. |
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This is another quick drawing but here he has made the illusion of movement by drawing the arm in two possitions like a long exposure photograph.
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Seated Figure by John Duncan
Here Ducan has used colour and has created the folds very well. It also shows how to draw hands that are linked. |
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Henri Matisse seated figure.
This figure has crossed legs like my figure and shows how to use shadow and shape in the limbs. I will not look straight on because I don't like the composition. |
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