Creating Abstract Art: Tracing & Combining Shapes

Video Transcript

"There's another way to start with this subject matter as your jumping off point. I did a tracing for you. I started by tracing this part of the figure, well it's not the figure, the skeleton, and what I did was I traced the part that I really like which is the socket here of the hipbone. So that's what I started working with. I traced that, it's real simple, just the outline of it, and I just indicated the edges of the pelvic crest, and here is the bit of femur down here. Now, what I decided to do with this is, I wanted to think about making it a drawing. I wanted to think, "What can I do with this"? So what I tried was, and this is handy because it's tracing paper, I went ahead and traced a portion of it on the other side of the page so that I now have two circles. Here's my two femur heads, here are the lower part of the pelvis, and then I started, "Where is this drawing going, what does it want"? And that's where you end up back more in the design section of things, perhaps, it's like, "What does this need"? "What are you responding to"? And this part of my responding was this sort of blade of the crest of the hipbone, so I decided, "Well, I'll throw in some more of them and I'll make them bigger". So here's another blade, here."