Add On to @barrysamways Fundamental Foundations Of Art #2:Foreshortening
This is how you think about foreshortening
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Original art by @jnart
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In this post @barrysamways showed some fundamentals on how to draw foreshortening fundamentals. This is some extra thoughts I had.
What do you need to know to master foreshortening?
I think it is crucial to know perspective, how to overlap shapes, shading and like in @barrysamways post - building structure to help you figure out form.
What does foreshortening mean?
Foreshortening is a technique used in perspective to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background (https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-foreshortening-2577559). I wasn't sure if the word meant "how we look at the world" or "the technique making something come towards you or recede back". What I can see, most of the time it has the fist meaning - a name for when we see an object in a painting or photo (or in the real world) in a certain way.
Why use foreshortening - this super tricky thing?
Because you are excising your brain to represent things in 3D. And because the illusion of depth make the viewer be part of the picture and thus make it more interesting.
More help to understand how to draw foreshortening. And also check out Michelangelo's paintings, he was one of the first to really use it well:
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Wonderful add on! Drawing in general is a great exercise for the brain but envisioning 3 dimensional shapes and making sense of them on empty space to figure out how to create them is such a great practice. It's like doing artistic pushups. Also makes for very impressive pieces done right.
Yeah, and it is really hard not to get a stiff drawing. For me it is best for problem solving. Thanks for the comment!
Never went to college and took art, so learned a new word.
I am learning them myself right now, good if you want to critique art.
It's fun to poke around with sketches and try to get the best looking perspective in there as you can. This is a useful lesson, thank you :-)
It is, and most fun is maybe to bend the perspective in unnatural ways.
Nice post...wonderfull dance...to be continued
See ya! :D