Activity Eight - Gesture drawing

This activity turned out to be most interesting in that the main focus is on studying the subject that I'm attempting to draw.




The original image that I was studying is of my granddaughter eating birthday cake:

I'm new to the concept of gesture drawing so I drew from a photographic still.  Even still, the image had to be broken down into two separate drawings.  The first drawing is of the main subject, while the second drawing is of the background. 

The idea of both these drawings is to give a person 25 minutes to focus on the subject and one minute to draw the surroundings, then 25 minutes to draw the surroundings and one minute to draw the subject.

Rather tricky, to say the least. 


After the drawings are made, then the concept of rhythm and curve is added to the drawings, basically giving the drawer some freehand curves that brings both the subject and background into focus.  I'm not sure how well I went, but there we have it.



This is the first image of my subject.  25 minutes of my focus.

The next image is 25 minutes of the background.  This is also a huge difference.








Seven activities completed.  I'm meant to be doing activity seven, but I'm stuck on its delivery.  Hopefully I can talk to my tutor about it soon.