Life model

We then had a new life model, this time it was a man I began by drawing four 5 minutes fast drawings to start off and begin to look at the body and shape. I found this difficult as I like to take my time while drawing so I feel this was quite a weakness, as I couldn't adjust to get the main shape that was asked for.

Here was another quick illustration of the life model, here I focused on one area and enlarged it as I felt this would create a much more interesting drawing, you can see how I begin to bring out the different tones seen on the stomach and chest area.















Below was quite a longer illustration, I found this more difficult as I kept making the head to small and the angle of the leg wrong, so I re marked where they were then suppose to be and redrew them into the character. I then began to bring out the tones and shadows that I could see on the body, this I feel then helped my illustration as it no longer seemed like a flat piece of work.

Below was another illustration, I found this one easier than the previous, I feel that could be because there was more thought for myself as how the drawing would work, so I began to think more in detail and it helped with the final outcome. The shading for the tone doesn't work as well as I would have liked it to but it is clear to see the possible pose that the life model was in, so I think it works well.

For the last illustration we were trying to show direction in the drawing, each time I drew the leg and arm in which the life model was posed, the direction wasn't coming through in my illustration so I feel for this piece I failed to achieve what was intended.

Pencil and drawing ink

Here I started to draw a person and then began to build up the tones and textures of the body with drawing ink, I found this quite interesting as it created a style that was completely different to that of what I had done before. Here the character was crouched on the floor so I then went onto drawing a new character but actually standing on top of this character already, this created a whole new dynamic to the drawing and created a completely different view of what could be going on.
At the bottom left I also began to use parcel paper, this was so that the character stood out against this brownish background, and no longer flat on the page.


Character Concept
For these characters I imagine them being olympians, and competing in the diving as it seems they could be practising or going through a routine for there sport. The ink on the body also creates a blue which could be the water as these characters dive together.

Charcoal Drawing 2

We were then given another image this time venturing into drawing the back of a person, and digging out the muscles so that it was clearly visible to resemble the back of a person.
I found this quite satisfying as once I could see I was heading in the right direction I felt more confident that I would be able to create a realistic image of the persons back muscles.
As you can see in the illustration I began to dig out the darker parts that was the shadow, to help create the illusion of a 3 dimensional figure.

Character Concept
Looking at this illustration I could see this character possibly being a sprinter as the image looks as though he is running, although because his knee is so low down, its possible that he has just fell while running.

Charcoal Drawing

Unfortunately the life model didn't return, so we were given an image from a life drawing book, using what I had learnt the week before I found it in parts the same, but using the charcoal created a much more experimental drawing and was able to explore with the different tones and marks the charcoal could create.

Character Concept
We were then asked what our character that we had drawn could be created into, with mine due to the small head compared to the body, I felt that it was much more bug like, so the character could be a cross between a bug and a human, possibly a praying mantis.

Life Drawing

The next week we then were able to draw a life model, initially starting to think about proportions and what body parts could be joined to create a more realistic drawing. I found this helpful as I hadn't really thought about keeping things in a grid like manner and found that anticipating what area fits where helped me to recreate a suitable illustration of the life.

Concept character

From the initial drawing I created, I decided to take it further and created a character.

Because of the pose I thought possibly biker chick, so I gave the character sunglasses to give the character less identity as you can not see her eyes, which adds a sense of not knowing what the character may be about, and may create suspense to find out what the character looks like without theses glasses on. I see her being strong yet have a sensitive side when nobody is looking.

Weaker Hand Drawing

I was then challenged to illustrate with my weaker hand(my left), for this we had the teacher act as a life model and I drew her sitting on a stool, with a fine liner.

Life action drawing

For this task we had to draw people that we could see, and draw them fast, by simply drawing the basic shape of these people.

At first I began to draw the people in my class, here you can see how they are in similar positions as they to are drawing one another.

We then went out and began to illustrate people around us, personally I felt this was harder as the people would be moving while trying to illustrate them and I also felt awkward as I was very aware that I was drawing people that I didn't know, and on occasion they would look over and acknowledge that I was looking at them, so the drawings were even more so rushed.

Charcoal and eraser

Using charcoal and an eraser I firstly had to cover two A2 pieces of paper with the charcoal, and then began to define the bone that I was using into it, using the charcoal I etched the initial shape to help create a basic idea of where I should begin to draw. I then started to use the eraser to help me draw and define areas of the bone which helped give a better definition of the texture and tone.

The next week, I then added a new element to the drawing which was a rib cage, on the left you can see I began with defining the bone and using the eraser to create the texture and tone within the surface of the bone itself. When I took a step back and looked at the drawing the bones didn't really stand out, so I then proceeded with the charcoal to darken the background which made the rib cage appear to pop out of the page and created a sense of  an area as to where the bones may be.

Perspective Drawing

I then went to the workshop, and began to draw the scenery in and around there going from what I had learnt with the perspective drawing, I tried to look for certain parts that I could link together, and create a sense of depth. To help me create these lines I used masking tape on the page and drew over them as appose to taking them off at a later time. I felt the masking tape added to the drawing and created something more interesting than if it was just a plain drawing on an A2 piece of paper.

Using perspective in observation.

In a session we then had a difficult model set up for us to draw, this contained spheres cubes and other 3D objects. This was quite a challenge for me as I had never drew something possibly this complex and confusing on the eye, as we see it in 3D but when it comes to drawing our eye makes us draw what we think it would look like in 2D instead of helping us draw what we actually see in front of us.

I also had to think about the tone and texture, and try to create the right amount of each to create the illusion that these objects on paper look 3D instead of a flat image, and create the 3D look.

The objects that was given to draw.

 

Unfinished A2 Drawing of the objects.

Perspective Drawing

I then looked at perspective drawing, we started by drawing a horizon line across the middle of a page that was landscape, then fixed the vanishing points near to the two ends of the horizon line and began to draw several boxes, I then joined them to the vanishing points, which then created a sense of depth to the drawing.

Key Ring

Again, we began to do some more observational drawing, and I decided to draw the heart that was on my key ring, discovering that it was quite difficult as there were some segments of the drawing that I struggled with as I was trying to get the tone and texture accurate to what I could see.

 Above is the key ring, you can see how it was difficult, as I was trying to get the areas of red in the right places. Above is newer photo, unfortunately since the drawing below the red colour has worn away more so and the key ring chain it was on has changed.

Below, I drew this from a standing point of view while the key ring was in my hand, so there was a different angle seen when I drew this piece below.

The material used for this drawing was conte, which are square in shape, I found it gave off quite a vibrant colour to the drawing and was quite easy to work with.