" The Third Class Carriage "

By: Honore Daumier

" The Third Class Carriage "

By: LCI CyberARTS Year 1

          Our teacher this week gave us an assignment. The medium that we had to use was compressed charcoal and willow charcoal. Before this assignment we practiced creating value scales with charcoal to help us practice using the medium for this assignment.  Our teacher had cut small pieces of the painting. Everyone received a square piece of paper along with a small cut out of the artwork "The Third Class Carriage". The teacher told us to draw the lines and value, based on what we saw and not what we thought was there.  In my opinion our class recreation of the third class carriage does not look realistic.

When you look at some parts of the artwork they do look realistic because they have a lot of detail and nice contour lines which make it look realistic. But when you look at the faces most of them do not look realistic because there isn't much detail in them. Also when you look at the artwork as a whole the lines don't match up which doesn't make it look realistic, as for the original the contour lines match up along with the value in it.

   
        Our recreation does not represent a lot of unity because of the way we made it. Not many of the lines connect with another which doesn't create the look of movement. Nor does most of the shading match, which doesn't create a lot of emphasis on anything. Therefore it doesn't appear as a clear picture. When you compare the original and the one we recreated there is a big difference in it. The original has movement, it has emphasis in specific places and the shading seems confident.

       When I look at our recreation it doesn't show a lot of emotion. This is because the whole recreation does not have unity which makes it difficult to seed what is happening in the picture. As for the original you are able to see every detail in the artwork, you can see the expression that the people have sitting in the third class carriage. Most of the expressions seen on their faces are depressing because they are at the back of the train where all the smoke goes through. But they seem like they have a strong personality because they have a good posture while sitting, instead of slouching which can show as if they are beaten down.

Overall I did really like this assignment it was challenging at some points, and I do really like how the year 1 CyberARTS recreation turned out.