Let's Sketch on Location: Organizing and Creating Space

ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.7 - OCTOBER 2000

Let's Sketch on Location: Organizing and Creating Space
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Figure 5. Figure 6.

Other Techniques
In figures 5 and 6 I am not using different materials to separate the planes. In the one below, notice that the foreground plane is distinguished by the table that recedes into the background, and yet is not parallel to the picture plane. You still get a strong separation of elements created by the scale differences of the foreground and background figures. In the drawing above, besides by the emphasis of differences in scale, you also get a strong feeling of depth by the way the shadow and general tones pass behind the foreground.

Figure 7.
Figure 8.

In the drawing above (figure 7) I have used the strong concentration of light as a way of separating foreground from background, in addition to using the well-defined horizontals to give a sense of overlapping depth. In figure 8, the sense of scale between the figure in front compared to those in the back effectively separates the planes.

Figure 9.
Figure 10.

In figure 9 and 10, I have used large open spaces to create depth and separation between the planes. In the drawing on the top of the next page, you see the combination of the strong diagonal of the wall with a horizontal shadow, plus a large empty space which gives a clear separation of planes.

The segments of the wall along with the strong perspective carry the viewer's eye from the foreground to the background.

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