The first 3 weeks of Semester 1 of VIS1010 were made up of Foundational Drawing. Each week was a series of exercises, and a resolved work based on the preceding exercises. The resolved works will be presented in a separate entry, and the exercises for week 2 were as follows;
Week 2
1 Point Perspective
1 point perspectiveExercise 1 – 1 point perspective study – find the vanishing point
2 Point Perspective
2 point perspective studyExercise 1 updatedExercise 1 updated – Trace the image and find the horizon line & vanishing pointsExercise 2 – 2 point perspectiveExercise 2 – Replicate the prior image
Exercise 3 – Landscapes exercise
Landscape 1 @ USQ [Note: mixed charcoal. Used the lighter, firmer charcoal to sketch and added softer darker willow charcoal. Felt it was very messy and abstract.]Landscape 2 @ USQ [Note: used only soft dark charcoal. More satisfied with the result.]Landscape 3 @ USQ [Note: Horizon line from this perspective was at a sloped angle. Interesting to capture but bit strange to replicate.]Landscape 4 @ USQ [Note: shifted to pencil as I wanted to sketch it more quickly and cleanly as I was sketching in my car.,]
Landscape Resolved Work Drafts
I drove around the backstreets of USQ and on the way out to Greenmount as there were some beautiful sloping hills and valleys that captured really interesting landscapes. All the sketches are on A3 rather than A4 like the previous, and are in graphite pencil. Both of these will make transferring the image easier. The intention for the resolved work was either a water colour with ink lines or to take pages from a damaged booked (the works of Bram Stoker) and paste those to cotton rag, then to create the landscape with thick lines and possible colour.
I find landscapes challenging. Whether it is the distorting that occurs when the perspective isn’t correct when sketching buildings, or presenting vegetation in a way that makes it clear that it is, in fact, vegetation.
Landscape Draft 1 – No Through Road behind USQ Toowoomba CampusLandscape Draft 2 – Homestead in Valley Viewed from Side RoadLandscape 3 – Back Road Through Suburb on Rolling HillResolved Work. I did not enjoy landscapes. However, inspired by the gothic architecture of Bram Stoker’s writing, I drew a cathedral and then paper mached over. Then permanent marker over.
This is amazing