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Evolution of Type

by Andreas Scheiger

Week six:

I started out warming up for my final render by doing a series of gesture sketches. For some reason I got myself all worked up and hit a block after I reached stage three- outline- probably because I felt like ones I start to shade and tone I am limited as to how much I can change. I let my instructor know and she put together a thoughtful video critique of the post showing a gesture/ geometric study and the outline. She also recommended I relax and gaze at some works of art I like a lot or artists I respect. I did just that surfing around tumblr ;)

The next day I pushed past the block and brought the render to near completion.

(Source: tiffanyneumann.com)

Week Five:

1. We started this week with a portrait of our face. I honestly tried my best but it just does not look like me. The planes of the face are such subtle yet vitally important elements, the slightest error ruins the whole thing. I added the wrinkles around my eyes I thought I could use creative license to leave out but I needed them to make the face look somewhat like myself. Why does it work in Photoshop??? just kidding, I know why.
2. This is a draft of what we will be doing for our final I didn’t render it too far, just enough to give my class and instructor the idea so they could give me feedback and answer my questions- I was not sure if I should bother making the texture of the couch or paying attention to the detail of contrasting tones. This class was specifically about the figure so I wasn’t sure if our instructor wanted us to keep the focus on just that.
3. my final gestures.

(Source: tiffanyneumann.com)

Week Four:

1. We started out this week drawing our hands and feet. Hands are so much more difficult to draw than I expected them to be. My instructor told us a story about how one time during her studies she had an instructor who had them draw hands and feet each class of a 12 week class. She said it was repetitive and got old but through this practice she stopped avoiding hands and feet in her drawings. I liked that story, it helped me to realize my tendency to avoid hands and feet is something all students go through, not just me being lazy.
2. This was a challenging week because we had to do a seated and reclining pose in as our second assignment. I put my all into the seated pose but was burnt out by the time I got to the reclining one- and it shows. Additionally, drawing while in this position hurt my back like crazy- I couldn’t wait to be done with this one.
3. gesture sketches for week four  

(Source: tiffanyneumann.com)

Week Three:

1. This week we added the muscles in the posterior and anterior view. I was glad this was through, I didn’t like the way it looked from the first assignment so all the following submissions nagged at me.
2. This was my first attempt at a full figure self portrait. I am not entirely disappointed with it, but I did over exaggerate how big or how small I was trying to make my body parts. I do have muscles in my legs and behind from ridding horses, and I do have thin arms, but each are draw to an extreme that is not really me… I did get a Wow! from my instructor which made me feel great :)
3. These are gestures from week three. I felt like my progress stalled.

(Source: tiffanyneumann.com)

Week Two:

1. We filled in the posterior and anterior view of the skeletal system. It is painful for me to look at this, the bones of the lower spine look like giant puzzle pieces.
2. This is our second week practicing the first two stages of figure drawing; stick figure and geometric shapes/ cylindrical study. This week we added the third step, outlining the figure.
3. We were asked to keep an online journal of our weekly gesture sketches these are some of my first ones examples. I changed from a pencil to a stick of vine charcoal because it helped me to stay loose and not focus so much on the details.

(Source: tiffanyneumann.com)

Week one:

1. The first week of my figure drawing class we started by outlining what would become the skeletal and muscular systems.
2. Our next assignment was to observe people in action, then draw their stick figures and turn those into sketches of geometric shapes.

It’s funny to look back at the outline of what will become the bone and muscle sketch. I had to copy an image on screen and it came out all cockeyed. I submitted a draft and asked my instructor if I should revise and resubmit after her critique and she recommended that I not do that for this assignment. As a result my final outcome is wonky too, but perhaps she wanted us to see how things are connected in that way.

(Source: tiffanyneumann.com)

thisistheverge:

Real-time Facebook ‘likes’ displayed on Brazilian fashion retailer’s clothes racks

A new initiative called Fashion Like allows people to ‘like’ certain items of clothing on the company’s Facebook page, and these clicks are collated and displayed on the relevant clothes rack in real-time.

A few logo concepts I am submitting as presentation drawings- Feedback is appreciated…

I love this picture!