Constraint Description:
- Inspired by the work of Cristina Troufa, create an artwork that depicts human figures or characters interacting from an angle that demonstrates EXTREME FORESHORTENING.
- Foreshortening creates an exaggerated sense of spatial depth by emphasizing a certain part of the body, and reducing or hiding other parts behind it.
- MATERIAL OPTIONS: anything except graphite pencil
- Number of Figures: 1-5 (they may be cropped too!)
Project Steps:
1. Take reference photos of 1-5 people interacting that is showing extreme foreshortening.
2. Roughly sketch out your favorite compositions for what you might want to draw for this foreshortening assignment in your visual journal. If you need practice drawing foreshortened figures, please reference the guide below and practice drawing more simple foreshortened forms (such as your hand) before moving on to a whole figure.
3. LIGHTLY draw your composition in pencil on your surface
ON 12x16 inch surface FOR 3x4 inch PHOTOS
OR ON 12x18 inch surface FOR 2x3 inch PHOTOS
4. Use your chosen material to fill in the colors and/or values of the figures/characters!
The work of Cristina Troufa
Cristina holds a Licentiate Degree in Painting since 1998 and a Masters Degree in Painting since 2012, both in FBAUP (University of Fine Arts of Porto).
She has exhibited throughout Portugal, in solo and group shows since 1995 and international exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Australia, France, Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, England and USA.
Cristina Troufa wants to consolidate the idea of a self-portrait and/or self-representation but on the other hand wants to reflect on a spiritual, emotional, and psychological inner self-portrait, that may be done conceptually. She uses her own image in autobiographical paintings that explore her life and spiritual beliefs. As a form of self-knowledge and self-questioning, her work explores an inner world in a symbolic way, which remains inaccessible to the voyeur that can only guess what each painting represents.