How do sculptors use drawing?

Context

My tutor for Drawing Foundations made a potentially throw away comment that “Sculptors using drawing differently” during our Assignment 4 review session. On reflection I thought this was important to follow up on as a piece of research, as to what the comment meant and implied. I can partly answer this from my own experience. In late-stage drawings that will be mapped to a sculpture it is important that the skills of drawing in perspective are put to one side. These drawings have more in common with architectural drawings than pieces of expressive artwork. I don’t think, however, this this is the full story. There is, therefore, a fruitful avenue for investigation available which could help move me forwards.

Project 4.3: Foot practice

Project 4.1: Making a start

Its taken me a while to actually start Project 4.1. Partly this was taking a break in general, but I have also been trying to do some practice and consideration of how best to approach it. The brief makes it clear that this is about building a network of lines and not continually rubbing stuff out if you make a mistake. It is also about building a fair sense of tone with line based marks rather than density of mark making material. These approaches are both quite new to me.

Project 3.1: open cupboard practice

A2 paper, though drawing nearer A3 size. Need to use more of the paper. Not sure if I should be using a ruler for the (not so) straight lines. Door has worked ok, though is slightly inaccurate. Clearly need to take more time in the initial layout.

Overall a reasonable start point.

Project 3.1: Objects practice

Practicing shapes

Following my tutor’s suggestion I decided to do some more shape practice. First I revisited the circle the sphere exercise…

Project 2.2: 2 Toilet roll cores

Happier with this one.

Assignment 1 Feedback Action

There is so much in the feedback I received from my tutor I’ve started to turn it in to a slightly simpler list of “things to do”:

Sketchbook: Pastels on Black paper

This is just an exercise in the use of pastels, even though I was re-visiting the Bonsai tree from memory. Interestingly I then sprayed it with fixative and lost quite a bit in quality. An issue for future consideration.