Figure Drawing week 3- Tate Modern Location Drawing (Looking up + looking down)

For this weeks session on location I tried to focus on just drawing the outlines of the figure and adding in any context visible around them so as to make the viewpoint more obvious. I think that I was successful in doing this in some of the drawings, for example maybe both the drawings on the right in the picture above. To make the view point increasingly visible in my drawings I need to focus on what sections of the figure I can see more of, for example when looking down you will see more of the person's head and their upper body will appear larger than the lower body, almost in a cone sort of formation. Again this partly includes the need for me to draw what I see rather than what I know is actually there.

Whilst these drawings are ok, I definitely need to add more information of the surrounding context as it is not always clear what the figures are doing...

It was particularly hard drawing figures on location as often they would move, not giving you much time to record the visual information. This was true for all of the drawings but particularly those from bellow as it quickly became obvious to the subjects that I was drawing them and then they would move away. It was also difficult to see details of the figures as some were quite far away, I therefore often ended up just drawing shapes that resembled figures, rather than focusing on getting the proportions of all the parts of the body right. I guess doing lots of these sketches quickly was good practice as I was able to see what the general form of the figure would be if I were viewing it from above or bellow. I could then apply this knowledge to my more close up and detailed drawings of figures from these viewpoints in the future. I also quite liked the look of this more general view of the figure as I think it works quite well in the drawing of the figure in the window above. I couldn't see more than just a dark figure in this high up window and therefore just decided to draw it as a silhouette which makes the person look quite mysterious.

I really liked the dramatic angles of the architecture in the Tate Modern and this gave us a good opportunity to drawing in the surrounding landscape and use it to suggest and aid the depiction of the actual view points. The multiple views of different points on each of the floors in the Tate obtained from my positioning in the Turbine Hall, allowed me to capture people doing different activities, adding a certain dynamism to the drawings as there are so many different scenes to look at.