The lecture follows logically from last weeks lesson on shape. The silhouette takes the directionality of the line of action and the balance of the shape and melds them together to make a recognizable human form. The goal of your silhouette should be to convey a sense of direction and balance, but most of all, it should be readable as a human pose. Even though it is a flat 2 dimensional shape, the viewer should be able to tell what the subject is and what it's doing. This becomes a problem when the pose places limbs in front of a body or has a lot of foreshortening. To combat this, Alex recommends that you ad negative space where you can, and rotate the model in your minds eye so that you can mitigate limbs being obscured by the body. This is a very useful but difficult skill to learn.
This lecture follows the pattern of the previous two. A short introduction of the topic followed by one 20 minute session of one minute poses where Alex talk through his process then closes with a second 20 minute video were you draw the poses.
The most infuriating part of this lecture was the critique. A reoccurring problem with this course is that it taught by Alex Woo, but critiqued by Louis Gonzales. I understand that this is an art class, and there is never just one way to do anything. However, it is annoying to work with one set of recommendations guidelines and goals, and then be critiqued for doing exactly what the instructor told you to do. This week's lecture was a prime example. Half of the lecture was focused turn arounds. However, Louis immediately side it was a mistake to rotate the model at all and I should have spent more time exaggerating the pose.
This weeks homework included the following parts
1-2 hours of life drawing focused on silhouette
2-Draw the silhouette from 10 picture of your choosing
3-Draw the silouette's from the second 20 minute session
Here are my submissions. I've practiced and included #3 multiple times.
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