Balance & Weight & Dynamism

These sketches focus on anatomy, they show the posture of the body while holding different objects, it also shows the balance and weight of each pose and how it affects the body. There are static and dynamic poses which vary between open and closed forms.


The movement and action of the dynamic poses show the model carrying out a rowing movement with his arms and body moving but his legs planted firmly down. The upper body rotates and changes from closed form to open form also the muscles in the body flex and relax with head movement. The drawings show some foreshortening but also some of the proportions of the body are not correct, this makes it seem less realistic, this could have been due to the perspective at which the drawing was done.

Basic Anatomy

This sketch of basic human anatomy shows the leg muscle while it is flexed during bending of the leg. The lines in the drawing clearly show the angles of the leg which show the pose that is being made. The proportions of the leg and the muscles are correct and constant, this allows you to see the weight that is being put on the leg.

The drawing follows the rule of thirds and is in a good position on the page, this makes it pleasing to the viewer, the balance of the image is even but more detailed shading could have been added to the foot and stomach. The strong background shading makes the detail in the leg stand out more, this improves on the muscle definition.

Foreshortening & Extreme Angles

These 3 sketches were drawn fairly quickly and then some extra time was spent to slightly improve areas which required a bit more detail, the first sketch was used to create the foreshotening effect of the skeleton by creating a 3D box guide, it was also to ensure that the proportions of the skeleton were correct.




 The second sketch was progression from the first sketch by adding in parts of the skeleton to the already created box guide. The aim of the drawing was to draw foreshortening effects at an extreme angle, an oblique angle, this meant that the foreshortening effect would increase drastically over a short space. This image shows how the skeleton gets smaller as it goes further away from the viewer, this is foreshortening.




 The third sketch that was drawn was at a very difficult perspective this made it quite hard to draw the skeleton an improvment to this would have been to pick a better perspective, also the skeleton's feet have been cut off the image, a better perspective would have allowed for the full object to be within the page.

Composition Focus

This drawing focuses on compostion, the way in which the different objects are set out on the table and how they are placed in different depths so that none of the objects are alligned together. The main fault of this drawing is that the main large jug does not lie on top of the rule of thirds but instead nearly in the centre of the drawing.

The shading of the objects follows their contours this adds depth to the objects and creates the 3D effect. There is an implied line which flows around the objects, this naturally draws the attention of the viewer as their eyes flow around the picture looking at the different objects. The shading is good but there needs to be more levels of depth and breadth for the darker areas, rather than jus the two, light areas and dark areas.