Arrangement & Composition.

The artist is about to share with you one of his favourite sketches which is a portrait of his pet pheasant in it's bird cage. The artist wanted to demonstrate their understanding of arrangement & Composition. As we analyse the sketch we can see that the artist has tried their best to separate the background from the middle ground as well as the foreground. Now the artist will take us through some of the elements that enabled them to create this work of art.

As the artist observes the sketch that the first thought that goes through their mind is the fact that there is definitely a sense of implied line. For the artist the first object that they appear to notice is the outline shape of the pheasant. Then the drapery which accidentally emerges with the pheasant & this is down to the fact that the artists did give more importance to the pheasants presence within the composition. The sketch itself has a definite sense of the rule of third throughout , for an example one frame located in the middle possesses the head of the peasant along with the cage in the background.

To complete the sketch the artist decided that it was best to add a negative space in the background. This way the viewer's eye is encouraged to draw it's attention to wards the cage gradually drawing closer to the foreground which is the drapery. The smaller items within the bird cage could be improved to match reality. But the artist may have deliberately paid less attention on these particular items as the artist may have wanted the audience to appreciate the arrangement as a whole & not create a dominant object . 

Here is another example of a life drawing   which possess both form, tonal values & clear self casted shadows. All of these elements contribute to the three dimensional form of the Burja Khalifa replace in the glass bowl. 

The artist is most proud of this sketch as it appeared the self castes shadows contributed to the three dimensional form of the Burja Khalifa's stayed in the glass bowl .