Too Realistic?

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nude – 06-04-16’ is a rather realistic looking nude of my favourite model. However, she was subject to a certain degree of styling according to my principles of roundism. Unlike the previous one, called ‘Nude – 01-04-16’ though, I must admit. In fact, far a bit less but more than the one before that, called ‘nude – 25-03-16’. It was my very aim to try out three different levels of abstraction in a row. Sometimes such intentions turn out just very fine. Often they don’t and that’s fine too. An artist is also in need of getting unexpected results. Those are the greatest ones and for that matter conducive to artistic growth.

A Bit Too Realistic?

The drawing at hand turned a bit more realistic than I intented it to let on. No worries though but a bit of a surprise really. Strange to see how I grew into being capable of getting a realistic result. Maybe a bit too crafty. What do you think? It makes me think of an old saying that during the process of creating artists are in great uncertainty. After completion the big doubt begins.

Razor Light

Enough doubt expressed for now. What initially attracted me was the razor light from the right. It centralizes the focus into some kind of blunt ‘V’ in the middle of the drawing. Especially the upper leg / inner thy causes this triangular shape to appear. To my opinion it creates a bit of needed dynamics. The pose otherwise could have appear to be a bit to dull. I’m always on the look for contrasts like these. These contrasts could be colorwise, light and dark or even thematically.

Graphite pencil (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm – A4 format)

Artist: Corné Akkers

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