Art fools us and we like it. Our eyes perceive the reflection of light and familiar shapes and forms. An artist uses his pencil and the elements of design to create a visual representation of familiar things. When subjects in paintings and sculptures "are so convincingly portrayed that they may be mistaken for the real thing, they are said to illusionistic" (Adams).
Have a look at this painting, entitled The Betrayal of Images by René Magritte:
Magritte simply informs us that no matter how well he has painted this image, it is nevertheless not a pipe at all, but a painting. Even the word "pipe" is not a pipe, but a visual representation of the object in question!
Our next assignment takes illusion to it's most simple level in creating a sketch, which may serve as practice for a more complex drawing. We will use gesture lines to recreate a scene. Taken from kms.kapalama.ksbe.edu/art/lessons/03line/l03_line.html:
"By definition, gesture drawing is a quick method of representing a sense of movement and an object's weight and mass with as few marks as possible."
Here is an example:
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