Studio Blog | Stéphan Angoulvant

Development of Form

Each semester at Art Center presents its own challenges, I’m beginning to accept and expect this. My third term came to a close a week and a half ago. Reflecting upon it I feel a great weight off my shoulders, knowing all the while that harder obstacles will face me soon.

One of the courses I took this summer was titled Development of Form, taught by the legendary Gaylord Eckles. The main assignment for the term was to select a product we would draw for the duration of the course. I chose a 1962 Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash. Each week were assigned many pages of sketches, with a particular theme in mind. These are some of the highlights of the term.

We started with basic views of the product including perspective sketches and orthographic views.

We then progressed to sketching hands and arrows.

Our first assignment in shading was to render the inverted shades of our product.

Here is the reverse of my drawing

The following week we sketched the product with a great number different lighting scenarios, here are two examples.

Each week in class we reworked a few of our homework pages to correct the mistakes. It was a very instructional process which greatly improved my technique.