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Scale and Proportion of Drawing

From “Problem Solvers¨ in Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

With a gesture of your hand over the surface of your paper, you can replicate the general space your drawing will occupy, to get a preliminary feel for its general shape and dimensions.

Using a gesture over a surface which will record what one is seeing, allows exploiting hand-eye coordination for the purpose of anticipating the appropriate space afforded to that recording on that surface (Garcia 2003, 26). It projects, via simulation of the motion or movement of drawing, the size in proportion to the scale of the surface as well as the intended placement or positioning. All of these are reducible to the shape and dimensions of the intended recording.

flowchart LR
A --> B
Z --> Y
subgraph id1 ["dual aspects"]
A["shape"]
Z["dimension"]
end
subgraph id2 ["scale"]
B["proportion"]
Y["size"]
end

Once pressing stylus to surface, the gesture must follow observation at each hesitant pause (refer to steps 3 & 4 in 20241102172736-Principle_of_Observation) (Ibid):

From “Problem Solvers¨ in Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

Take small pauses throughout as you decide your next moves.

Some things to especially take note of when drawing focused on shape and dimensionality, with gesture as emphatic technique (Ibid):

  • The shape of the object
  • How the aspects of a given shape connect
  • The ideal starting and exiting nodes of the gesture for the shape

Connection between technique and drawing emphasis

There seems to be a connection between the emphasized aspect of drawing technique and the specific aspect or effect of or on a drawing that is being focused on.

Gesture as method for size and dimension

It seems that when specifically working on the drawing aspects of scale and proportion, gesture is the appropriately emphasized method as it is what is primarily used to translate and convey such information.

art visual_art co-ordination hand-eye_coordination hand-eye_co-ordination projection proportionality dimensionality contour_drawing observational_drawing record styli

bibliography

  • Capp, Robbie, ed. “Problem Solvers.” In Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner, 26-27. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003.

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