Viewpoint & Depth

VIEWPOINT & DEPTH

DEPTH? - Illusion of distance/third dimension 

-Overlapping (FMB), perspective, size, cropping

VIEWPOINT? - Angle of how you look at the image - observe

-Realistic view - Highlights elements of focus

• Sean Tan
• Mobius
• Laura Carlin 

TASK

>Composition - Three figures

-Depth

-Viewpoint

ROUGHS! 

Consider also - shape, line and texture


Depth and viewpoint - more things that I struggle with a lot. I've always found it hard to make my drawings actually look 3D, but then I realised that it's because I've never thought of it properly, until now. 

                          

    

ROUGHS

>I wanted to choose a totally different subject, as native americans has bored me to death, as well as wanting to try something new.
>I really struggled when doing my first roughs (left) they just looked wrong but I couldn't work out what it was. So I decided to change the angle, because I realised from my last task that I always go for the side on viewpoint, so maybe doing a birds eye view would be something potentially interesting in how we look at an image. So I explored this further in roughs.
>I then used overlapping as another technique to show depth, overlapping the fish to show the depth of the sea.

roughs

roughs

BUT HOW AM I GOING TO DRAW THIS?????????

>I think where I've always gone wrong with composition is that I've chosen a far too detailed style for it to be successful, making it look too busy and taking so much time on something that can be communicated in a far more basic way.

With this in mind, as well as thinking about the shape tasks from a few months ago, I thought that using basic shapes would work best as they communicate the same to that of a more detailed drawing.

It's also something new for me so thought it would be great to get out of my comfort zone and see how successful the results are. 

FINAL

I'm unsure how I feel about the success of this illustration...

I like how...

>I've chosen a new viewpoint that I would have never thought about using before

>I've shown depth by overlapping the fish

>Doing a completely different style to which I would normally work - basic shapes and scribbled pencil. I don't think you could pick out that this work was mine if you look at all my other work. This also made me realise how you can use simple shapes to communicate instead of spending loads of unnecessary time doing each small detail, I definitely will use this again in future work. 

However if I had to do it again I would...

>Choose a different composition with more elements - I don't feel like I challenged myself enough, played it a bit too safe.

>Make the shapes look less childlike - I think it looks like it was rushed and not really thought through. I also think it makes it harder to really know what is going on in the image.