Paul Carroll - Sketchbook 2
So for my final composition I decided to stick with the depiction of Dimitri Pisarev in the foreground, with Saint Basil's Cathedral in the background. After the activity we did last Tuesday I realized that a simple way to symbolize one person caring for another would be interlocked hands, lifting someone up. Since my figure was all about the well being of his fellow Russians, I think that the interlocked hands symbolize this connection pretty well.
For the final drawing I plan on putting each element (The guys, the cathedral, the sky) on slightly different types of textured paper that might look weathered in a way. I think the combination old looking weathered paper and darkened corners/edges will give the final project the feel of an old timey photograph.
Comments
I like the direction you are going, particularly with the symbolism (the hands). One thing I would consider is perspective. Your current perspective is straight forward, and depicts a moment in time as though this particular composition were an event. Maybe play around with the perspective of the architecture, perhaps take more of a design approach and see how that looks. I recall you playing around with a more arial perspective before. Your different components are strong, now how can you make the composition reveal more about your figure as a person rather than relaying a moment (or what looks like a film still).
Posted by: Heba | February 4, 2008 3:01 PM
This isn't the image you had today, but the one in class today was fairly similar. The symbolization with the hands works very well with what you are trying to get across to the viewer. One thing I think you could work on is the background because it was hard to make out what the image in the background was at first. Probably just tune it up a bit so we can kind of get a sense of what is going on. Other than that, I think that yours is done very well.
Posted by: Micki Benson | February 8, 2008 3:42 AM