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Art School Eight
Relate Similar Parts
The way to a solid is a relationship between similar parts. It may not seem that elements in a composition relate, but that's the way human logic tends to work, but as we know a two
dimensional surface like the one you're drawing on really has everything connected and that it's really lines, contrasts and shadow and so on that make the elements seem to be separate.
But now that you know that you can establish in your drawing or painting how an angle over here might appear in a certain area of your work in
juxtaposition or correlation to, say, a curve of an object you're depicting in another section of the work.
Then these parts begin to co-relate to other sections of the composition as well as the way they appear if working from nature or still life, etcetera, or the way you want them to appear in an abstraction or something
imagined or remembered.
Any figure is workable. In the work secure the parts together, as is were. Start with two. Get a form. You can work in more detail later on as you go.
If you're doing a drawing, use a "B" pencil for this sort of exercise. Try for neatness in form, not getting
scribbly or blurry or leaving in other multiple "fudge" lines forcing the viewer to guess which line actually is part of the form.
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