Negative Space

Negative Space: Finn Johnston

Materials Used: Graphite

In these two pictures, I stacked two plastic animals, (elephant and rhino), and just looked at the space surrounding them. For my second picture, I chose a cool position for my fingers and held that position while I again drew the negative space surrounding my hand.

I did this by trying to ignore the actual object I was drawing and just focus on the negative space surrounding it. I also made my negative space dark so it would be easy to see the difference between negative and positive space.

I did this project because I wanted to improve my skills when I wasn't just looking at the main object. I also think that negative space drawing looks very cool on paper and I thought it would be cool to do a negative space drawing of two animals that I really like.