The Traveler Project Due Thursday Sept 27th

The Traveler- Three images


First do some thumbnails based on the images and photos from the shoot. There should be somewhere between 10 and 20 thumbnails exploring your ideas for the piece. Choose your image and the reference you'll need from the thumbnails and think about the story you are trying to portray.

Second: get reference for any and all background elements you will be adding to this piece. Remember Reference is KEY! Try to match the lighting situation from the figure to the background in the reference. If you need to, go out to the campus or greater syracuse or research in the library to find good backgrounds. Google is only one option and is not the best. There are more images out there in books and other media (film can be helpful as well try taking screen shots of backgrounds)



Image 1 should be a pretty sharp copy of the original photo image of the model that you are going to use for reference. It should be a tonally representative image. complete to the borders of the image.

Image 2 Take your first image put your reference away and draw from the first image you drew. Try to use your knowledge of the model, your sketches and your ideas and exaggerations to give life to the representation from the first drawing. This should feel one step removed from the reference yet still be a complete drawing.

Image 3  Now get your background references and put them together with your figure drawing. Put them together into a finished pencil drawing that will be the basis for the image we be taking to finish later on. This should be a tonally complete image with background foreground and mid ground elements expressing a story.

All three images should be 9x12 with at least a half an inch border all around( 10 x 13) and be done in pencil or other dry medium that allow for tonal treatment.

All three drawings will be due at the beginning of class next week along with all the references and materials you will need to work on a more developed pencil/drymedium piece in class after we have analyzed and spoken about it and put together a plan for the final image together.