mattfractionblog:rabald:Les Cités Obscures by François SchuitenOne note I tend to give almost univer
mattfractionblog:rabald:Les Cités Obscures by François SchuitenOne note I tend to give almost universally when looking at portfolios (which I try to avoid doing up but sometimes people don’t take no thanks for an answer) is that figure work is good, and environmental work is good, and life drawing is good, but drawing figures that look like they belong in space, that have weight and density, that have mass that interacts with an environment that exists with its own weight, mass, and density, is really fucking hard. I can count on one hand with fingers to spare the work I’ve seen in a portfolio that had solid spatial work. Look at your work: is that space real? Is that guy really standing on a floor? That woman, does the mass of her coat have results on her posture? Is that room a space we enter or merely an array of visual codes that tell our brains “room” without actually earning it?It’s the work of François Schuiten I’ll point to time and time again. In art school we were made to draw a white bag of sand with its neck pinched tight by white tape, sitting on a sculpture pedestal, about 480,000,000 times. Aside from my own face it was the most educational thing I ever had to draw. -- source link
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