Staging

UPDATE!:

5th attempt.


This stuff is giving me HORRIBLE headaches!!!

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Analysis in words:
-Mickey is framed by the test tubes
-There is an interesting variety of sizes. Mickey is small and the other elements (tubes) are bigger than him.
-Lots of negative space around Mickey
-forms of elements are distinctive and varied
-mickey silhouette is clear
- test tubes have negative space between them

blocking out the things first. No details.

Check:
- Left side of the table should be more up.
- Mickey has to be more down.
- The big test tube from the left must be more to the left.
- The tube that is behind, in the left, should be thick and more hiden.
-The round container above the left side is bigger.
-the tube that passes over mickey is in a wrong angle.
-The skull in the left side is bigger, so the book.

Corrections:
More to come.

Applying Traits of Successful Copies to Your Own Poses

This is an excellent copy of a Eisenberg pose by Geneva.

It has:

Construction flowing around line of action
Good clear silhouettes - made up from big negative shapes

and... NICE LINE QUALITY that doesn't obscure the construction.

Now applying these traits to your own work is the goal.
http://unlearningartschool.blogspot.com/2009/07/tom-poses-phase-1.html

Here's an original pose by Geneva. Good construction but:

Weak silhouette- no negative spaces:

Here's her correction: Good, now there are negative spaces

http://unlearningartschool.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-tom.html

Here's the clean up. Whoops! The negative spaces got eaten up by details - like thumbs and lumpy hands and toes.

Also the linework is too harsh. Not as nice and soft and flowing (while holding the construction tightly) as the first drawing at the top of the page.

http://unlearningartschool.blogspot.com/2009/08/tom-poses-further-along.html

Facial expression is cramped.

Lesson? - each stage of the progression of a drawing, there are dangers in losing the initial idea by toning it down. With each stage be conscious of the clarity of the pose, the silhouette, the construction and the hierarchy of the details. Don't let the details defeat the overall pose!

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/maintaining-guts-from-department-to.html