Week 2 - Mass, Form and Shape

Week two was the start of still life the main focus of this week was mass, form and shape, we started by drawing a number of still life objects that were arranged in a interesting composition on a table in the centre of the room. The first sketch I did was a twenty five minute sketch done in charcoal, this sketch focuses on some of the key principles of still life, shape, composition, mass and form. This sketch is a focus on just the siluette of the shapes in this still life arrangement.

This sketch shows a  interesting composition but does show some kissing objects which isn't that great but I think their is enough detail to tell that some objects are further away than others. The shape of the objects and also the way the drapery connects them together is shown very well in this sketch, It also has good proportion and mass which makes it easy to see that the objects a all different sizes and that they all have some mass to them. The sketch uses strong convex curved lines to accentuate the curves in some of the more rounded objects.

The second sketch I did was only a twenty minute sketch and again this was a focus on the shape, form and mass of these still life objects. Starting off with the shape, the shape  of these objects is shown very clearly in this sketch the contour lines are bold and continuous to form the whole shape of each object. The smooth, continuous, convex curved lines really help to accentuate the shape of the more rounded objects. 

In this sketch the form of the objects can be seen which help to interpret the third dimension to this sketch and gives a sense of distance between certain objects. The addition of drapery to the sketch gives the objects mass and grounds the objects to the table instead of having them floating around. The arrangement of these objects could have been improved because they a too squashed together and look like they are kissing.

This last sketch was a focus on drawing the concept of negitive space within still life arrangements. This sketch onlyincludes the sillute of each objectand no detail what so ever, this allows us to see the negitive spacing around the arrangement, the shape and form of the objects together in one mass and also the external lines of each object. From this sketch it is easy that there is a line just leading from the top left edge of the tallest still life object and stretching down a long the edges of the other two objects.