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Alternative Means of Drawing (Blind Drawing)

Claire Smyth AAD009 Drawing in Practice Alt. Means – Continuous Line Blind Drawings (wire etc)

When completing this alternative means blind drawing task, blind drawing was something that I had never experienced working / drawing with before, which as a whole it was in fact highly enthusiastic and really brought out your creative side. – Which to complete this task, we were given the overall brief to look and draw yourself in the mirror from the shoulders up without looking at what you are drawing and not lifting the pen from the page with the main aim of sketching / drawing a (10 +) continuous line drawing self portrait using a wide range of both pens / markers etc.

Surprisingly, after all attempts, I overall feel that I was still able to recognise and make out a solid facial structure and features similar to myself within my drawings to where I then went onto copying and going against one using black florist / gardeners wire to create the lines and marks of the specific face / self portrait with a 3 dimensional affect.

 

 

(Scale of drawings: A5 / A4.     Date work / task was completed & produced: 29/09/2020).

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Photo / Found Type workshop (letter form / typography phrases & drawings)

Claire Smyth AADOO9 Drawing in Practice : Photo / Found Type Workshop (letterform phrases & drawings)

(Various letter-formed word phrases as a result of creating multiple alphabetical typography letters, through specialised out of the ordinary materials and objects such as – tools, metal pieces, stationary, letter stampers, pens, old vintage books, newspaper, bottle tops, lids, wooden lolly pop sticks, keys, matches, clothing pegs and negative photo reels etc).

For this task, we where instructed to create a range or 2 – 3 phrases using and out of the letter that we had previously constructed and collated to create / display the whole alphabet.

As a result, I had chosen the phrase, quote and word: LOCKDOWN NO.2 ? , STAY HOME PROTECT THE NHS SAVE LIVES & GOOD THINGS TAKE TIME.

In relevance to the / this work produced throughout this AADOO9 workshop, my phrases where immensely inspired as a result of the previous shapes that I had created along with the current circumstances (coronavirus / coven-19) that we are still facing today, including the looks of Public Health logos, signage, phrases (plastered all over building and consumers TV’s across Northern Ireland and the surroundings of the United Kingdom) and the overall risk for a potential second lockdown or tightened restrictions as we enter and head into the winter months, along with one of my favourite quotes ”Good Things Take Time” and that working hard and having a strong / passionate willpower can get you to where you need to be in life.

As a result / from creating various phrases, I then went onto creating a silhouette drawing using a range of different mixed media including newspaper and negative photo film (but mainly through the use of ink ballpoint pens / fine liners) of the ‘Good Things Take Time’ quote, in which if feel that the outcome of this overall task in general (including the drawing) was in fact highly successful as throughout I become highly passionate and involved within it as I really took into consideration how I photographed and presented my work for review and putting it onto my blog.

(Range of scale used: A2 / A1.     Date completed / produced: 02/10/2020)

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Photo / Found Type workshop (Alphabet)

Claire Smyth AADOO9 Drawing in Practice :  Photo / Found Type workshop.

(Alphabetical ordered letter forms created / positioned through the use of unanimous objects, such as the likes of – machine parts, tools, keys, plastic, hooks, Allen keys, players, stationary, bottle tops, batteries, wire and wooden lolly pop sticks etc).

To complete this task / workshop, we where in which instructed to create, design and put together a composition and layout based upon and using random, incidental and irregular objects and items found around and based in the surroundings of your household to symbolise letters of the alphabet from A to Z.

When undergoing this task / work, I began collecting and collating various objects and items around my house in which the objects I found best to use when attempting to create / symbolise letters of the alphabet where in fact suprisingly tools from my dads toolbox, stationary, wooden lolly pop sticks, metal curtain pole ends, old books, batteries, lids of jars, medicine / pill cases and sewing equipment etc.

Once the objects where collected, I went onto forming various letters and placing them in alphabetical order until I has happy with the finalised image, which overall I really enjoyed this workshop / task due to the ability to use an external range of mixed media and having to go beyond your creative and thinking stills in a structured short period of time.

  

(Range of scale used: A2 / A1.    Date completed / produced: 01/10/2020) .