Justin Myles - Advanced Observational Art Portfolio

Sunday 6th October

Architectural Rendering: Exterior Of A Modern Building.

The following piece was produced with in 3 Hours using Pitt artist pens and pencils on plain A3 paper. 

Straight away a focus point is established as we look directly at the top corner of the roof to the right of the page, this also reflects usage in the rule of thirds as it's to the top right of the composition. Contrast and Line thickness are the main reasons for this focus point and it's also the reasoning that our eyes move down the orthogonal lines to the left of the page to the vanishing point where we see the entrance to the structure. Detail lowers as well as we reach the vanishing point in order to create more interest in the focus point.

The vantage point appears to be at quite a distance since the whole building is in perspective, this also allows us to clearly see the horizon line which if we were to draw a line across the page it would be where the darkened trees are. 

As for the light and shadow we can see that more contrast is used towards the focus point than that of the vanishing point, attention to values in the clouds and car park are also thought about as we can see reflections from the pillars.

A foreground, midground and background are also recognized as we can see the darkened trees in the background and the car park in the foreground.

Constructively some of the lines are off, specifically the lines behind the pillars which seem to curve a little, this disrupts the orthogonal lines and there also doesn't seem to be enough space for the building in the composition, it seems to be kissing the sides of the page when it could be a little more inwards to make more space for a background. 

Thursday 3rd October

Still Life: Composition [Fix]

This piece has been produced in order to fix the issues present in last weeks Still Life. 

(Again produced on A3 with Charcoal, I will only talk about the fixes, you can check out last weeks piece to see what my constructive input was)

The range in contrast is far superior in this piece than the last piece, there is a higher amount of darkness and that brings out the brightness in the man made objects such as the jars and bottles, this creates more areas of interest.

The objects are more spaced out than before thus there are no longer objects kissing.

There is also a much stronger focus point on the jar to the bottom right since it's the brightest object, it's also in the rule of thirds which the previous piece didn't have.

Constructively the other piece did have a better use of gradients and the box to the left is misplaced, it would be better to let the vase be seen more.