Week 5.5 : Negative Selfies

 For my negative image homework I had very annoying results which began to bug me. Two of the drawings came out with awful scaling and features all over the place however the tone seemed to start working. As a sense of experimentation I thought to attempt making an image of one of my old pictures of me on a climbing wall. it started well and if I had practiced more I think I could have really turned it around but its not a bad stopping point to reflect on. My final full body negative image drawing is the best in terms of scale, placement of features and measurements however in terms of tone and movement the experimental photo seemed to be the best, with variations of mid tones as well as light and dark sections shown clearly.

Week 4.5 : Hands Everywhere

 For the homework this week we had to draw our hands holding different objects, five different drawings to be exact. In a change of pace I wanted to not use charcoal for any of my images as its a material I have the most practice with so I chose pencil instead. For obvious reasons I feel the image with the glass in hand is my most successful purely because of the way the fingers and hand warp on the other side of the glass looks quite nice, especially considering it still holds the lines of light and reflections in it too. I'm also happy with my other drawings and the simple lines I have used for the tone and detail. Simple yet successful!

Week 9 : MUSEUM TIME

 Week 9 was a trip to Worcester Museum and to be honest it's a bit of an ancient building which made it only more interesting. Some of the exhibits date back quite far but even the display casing that some of these exhibits were in were a part of history themselves. Personally the animals on display were a little un-nerving however it was nothing compared to the dummies stood around with all the military equipment on. My best drawing was easily the Magpie, it seemed to call to me with the unique posing and structure of its body so I went straight for it with the charcoal and eraser. Again all of these skills im currently using could do with more practice over the holiday break.

Week 7 : Tone and Colour (Painting time)

 This week we all brought in paint and got into trying to paint tone more, only adding white at the very end. My figure paintings are generally to scale and look correct in terms of measurement however there were a couple of issues with painting in a background and keeping up to speed with the rest of the group in the 10 minute intervals. In future my planning would need to be more well kept to as it cost me the completion of a couple of paintings. I think overall though this was quite successful. One way to improve this would be to practice in my spare time over the up coming holidays.

Week 6 : Wet and Dry (with no wet)

 For the lesson this week we were working on mixing wet and dry materials. Most of my images are mainly focused on tone and varying light and dark areas. I tried a couple of ways to do this such as no real mid tones and just light and dark tones being heavily exaggerated, even in different colours to try add additional affects. My favorite for this is the complete red and blue chalk drawing as I feel the colours really help to not only show light and dark but to also show the heat and the cold areas, the blue really adds to the shadows and the lack of heat / light. whereas the red immediately shouts out that its a warm spot. Hopefully this success follows over into next weeks work!

Week 5 : Negative Drawings

For this weeks session we experimented with drawing on paper covered in charcoal and then erasing away at the charcoal to create an image, essentially a negative image where we bring out the light tones and pay less attention to the dark. This specific task was quite useful at getting me to look at the tonal values of the model differently as it meant that I had to really look and see what was going on and how it varied to other sections. I felt a couple of my drawings reflected my learning well whereas others were let down by my skills with foreshortening.

Week 4 : Foreshortening

 For the lesson this week we began to look at foreshortening and how to draw the body in different sizes depending on what angle we are looking from. I have had experience with this sort of drawing before so I knew what to expect however I did still find it a challenge to get some of the angles right causing me to have to go over certain areas again leaving my original markings behind. Some of these I left in as they add an additional affect to some of the images. Personally my best and favorite image is the one below in charcoal. This is due to the clean appearance of the image but at the same time the other lines that were used for planning this drawing seem to add an additional sense of shape or direction.