Negative Space Picture

Why draw negative space? While your brain knows a lot about how plants look, it doesn't know much about randomly shaped blobs of space between leaves. Drawing that space, which conveniently defines the plants,
prevents your knowledge of plants from interfering with your reporting of this particular plant and the view you have of it. If the negative space is drawn carefully, the plant should pop into being, although lacking in any
internal detail or shading it will look like the plant you are viewing/ drawing.
Materials: Stonehenge paper, vine charcoal
Before completing the assignment: Watch the two videos on negative space, as well as read the chapter 7 of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". The links to all of these are found below.
You will be creating a negative space drawing of a plant, as seen in the negative space video. You
will use your vine charcoal on your Stonehenge paper. You must find a plant that has open spaces between the
leaves- a cactus for instance, will not work. Look at the pictures below. The first one is an example of a plant
with great negative space. The second picture is of a plant with no negative space. If you cannot find a plant that works in your house or outside, please don't hesitate to use a photo reference. You can even use the
photo below.
Pay close attention to the SHAPES of the spaces around the leaves in order to correctly draw the leaves. By drawing the negative spaces you end up with a positive image. Negative Space drawing is when you pay close
attention to the spaces around an object. Being able to see negative space makes it easy to draw difficult views. If you draw the negative spaces around a form the positive object will appear. This is because the edges
of the negative spaces are exactly the same edges at that of the drawn objects.