Tag: life drawing


Oct
2020

Museum

categories: AAD009

 

While in the museum I wanted to create exactly what I was seeing as I knew hat this would be the best way to translate the image with the media. I took very little time with the sketching process and worked in layers over the whole page to slowly build up what I was seeing. This process as rewarding as it is in the end is very frustrating as it feels like you never make progress, the imagine also doesn’t seem to reveal itself until the very end when you take your eyes off it. I found that willow charcoal allowed me to get most of the tone onto the paper and a rubber assisted the highlighting process. I used compressed charcoal and conte sticks for the finer details that wouldn’t have been achievable with the darkest tone of charcoal.

The first two sketches are of ancient sea floor, the first being an A3 sketch and the other an A2 study of the fossil. I think that this looks really interesting and the different textures translated really well onto the paper. The third drawing is of a dinosaur skull. This I really like, it wasn’t until now that I realised that it does closely resemble what I was looking at. I blocked in some background and suggested shapes to make the page look more filled and completed, I didn’t want there to be any negative space on the drawing at all.


Oct
2020

Environment- (Concertina)

categories: AAD009

I really love how these turned out, I think that the range of media and colour helps to make each building stand out from each other. I tried to get buildings that looked nothing alike to put together to make each side of the paper look as diverse as possible, for this same reason I also looked at each building from a different perspective and didn’t forger to include things such as people, cars and streetlights. I used medias such as markers, paint, pens, coloured pencil and ink to achieve a different look for each building, the buildings as unique as they are all seem to fit together in a nice way.

 


Oct
2020

Environment

categories: AAD009

 

for these 9 drawings I spent a few days in Belfast looking at buildings from different perspectives and gathering a feel for what the energy around the building felt like. I wanted the building to have a sense of place and time along with being recognizable. I tried to limit myself to half an hour on each a2 drawing as this felt like a suitable amount of time to achieve the appearance that I wanted to. I used a range of media and with the rain being unpredictable I needed to use wet on wet medias for some of the drawings as the page got super damp from the weather. I think this was more of a benefit to the drawing though. I tried out a range of medias from watercolour, gouache, acrylic paint, markers and pens, sewing and coloured pencils. I think that the medias used help give the pieces a busy and urban feel which is the look that I was trying to achieve.

 

Drawings From Majella’s Task

 

The first drawing we had to complete an A2 drawing filled with energy and showcasing the natural setting and atmosphere. I took my sketchbook into Belfast and drew Robinsons Bar. I really love how busy this street is in general and thought that drawing it in the rain would be a good idea. I drew it with a water soluble marker which began to spread through the damp paper as I was drawing. To add some colour into the building I used watercolour to create a damp and mirror like effect that the rain has on the tarmac.

The second drawing i focused on tone and shape. I sued the side of my charcoal and and a tilted perspective of the Crown bar to make an interesting tone rich drawing. The street looks glossy and wet giving the building a sense of place and atmosphere. I like the tonal look for this building and the tilted angle in my opinion helps to focus on more of the surrounding streets.

For the third drawing I went up to the Penthouse suit in the Fitzwilliam hotel. the whole room was glass and allowed me to use my viewfinder from a high up and new perspective of the surrounding streets of the city below. I drew one of the assembly buildings and focused on a small section of the clock tower. I used water soluble marker and biro pen to complete a study that lacked precise details yet has a feeling of being detailed and full of depth.

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