So much work to do, but Flash is so much fun!!!

Messing around waiting for my takeaway to arrive...

 

 

 

Flash animation with Meg

Had lots of fun in our animation lesson with Meg today. We created animations using simple lines.

 

 

 

 

 

Life drawing - 26/11/14

Added a bit of colour into our life drawings this week! These were all 10 minute poses with graphic pencil and coloured pencils.

This was a 30 minute post drawing Alan and a mannequin. I started with blue chalk pastel with water worked over the top and then painted the figures with black ink. Really enjoying using the inks today.

This was a 20 minute painting. I started with coloured inks and then used chalk pastel over the top and more ink to add details (plus some added ink splatters!). Much fun. :)

Life drawing - 19/11/14

  

We started with a few quick drawings today working several poses on the same page, then moved on to more detailed studies. Thoroughly enjoyable as always!

10 minute poses with a graphic pencil

 5 min poses with graphite pencil                                     1 minute poses with charcoal

 Detailed studies

I can't draw feet and hands, so I decided to concentrate on feet and hands!

 

Life Drawing - 12/11/14

This week's life drawing class focused on negative space. I used mainly charcoal and chalk, but added a bit of pen and pencil to some of the drawings. I'm quite pleased with the first and last pages this week.

Both 10 minute poses, drawn with charcoal

These two drawings were both around 15-20 minutes for each stage. The first stage was drawn with charcoal, concentrating on the space around the model. The next phase was to add detail, which I did with a grey felt tip pen. Also used a putty rubber and a little bit more charcoal to add depth.

This is my favourite one this week. This was a 25 minute pose drawn with chalk, charcoal and black, brown and white coloured pencils.

Bubbles the Clown - Life Drawing

 

 

 

 

Life Drawing Week 2 - balloon installation

 

Had lots of fun in our drawing class again this week. With the pressure and concentration of the impending doom that is Crit day on Friday, it felt really nice and relaxing to work big and free. Really made me feel better and more chilled out! Phil set up an installation with balloons, trestles and crepe ribbons and, as the class was quite small, we were left to our own devices a bit more today. I wanted to experiment with colour and Vicky had prepared some textile dyes for us to use in our work. Along with the dyes, I also used charcoal, chalk, pastels and masking tape.

 

 

First drawing of the day. I started off by mapping out the larger, more dominant lines on the paper and then added the balloon shapes afterwards. I like the contrast between the straight lines of the ribbons and curves of the balloons. Just added a touch of colour with pastels to this charcoal and chalk sketch.

This again began with bold, straight lines with the flow and movement of the balloons. I went with the shapes and the colour added a sense of fun and freedom to this picture. I received some great feedback from my classmates who also noticed the suggestion of flags or kites in the drawing, with the hint of maybe a celebration or carnival. Quite an illustrative one apparently!

 

I wanted to experiment more with the textile dyes in this one and decided to use masking tape to define the straight lines in a different way. I worked over in pastels at different stages of removing the tape once the dye had mostly dried. However some of the patches where the dye was still damp added to the effect of the pastels and gave a much stronger look. Once I'd removed all the masking tape I worked over the piece again, sometimes with pastel, sometimes with more dye. The most effective results came from working dye on top of the pastel on the paper. Really pleased with this one and I might carry on and develop it even further.

 

I couldn't really have colourful balloons in front of me and not try out this version - coloured pastels and chalk on black paper. Didn't quite achieve the result I was hoping for, mainly because of the smudging but it was fun to give it a go. This was just a quick sketch while I was waiting for the dye to dry in the painting above.

 

Last but not least, here are some photos from the installation. Vicky said that photos can be part of our sketchbook/portfolio too and I'd like to use some of these to work on again in the future. Who'd have thought there was so much more to modelling balloons than making giraffes and flowers!


  
 

 
 

Drawing class!

Really enjoyed the drawing class today and had lots of fun using charcoal and chalk and working big. I love this free and open way of sketching. Today we draw from an installation with our Invisible Cities brief in the backs of our mind. Was also very inspiring looking at our classmates work and the techniques used. Sometimes it was the case that we saw things in each others' sketches that the artist hadn't necessarily seen themselves. We also took photos of our work which opened things up further as I could see more in the photos than I could in the actual artwork. This touches on a point made in our 'Realism' lecture last Thursday that the camera can sometimes give a different perspective to real life.

Charcoal on white paper drawing the installation

The first drawing of the day and I quickly relaxed into the freer style of working. I really enjoy charcoal work and find I can be more creative, productive and above all confident than when working on a smaller scale. Maybe because you cannot hide the work so well?! By the third sketch, I'd really gotten into what I was producing and this has built my confidence with my drawing overall.



Charcoal on white paper concentrating on the negative space

I quite like the abstract nature of this one. I wasn't thinking of anything in particular when working on it, but just drew what came to me at the time. Large scale doodling really, but based on the negative space and the shadows on the objects in front of me.

 

 

Chalk and charcoal on black paper

I started off drawing strong shapes from the installation and then I could imagine a city forming. Looking at the photo of the artwork seem to highlight even more parts of the sketch which weren't as apparent or as strong in the original.

First ever brush test in Photoshop!

These were my first attempts at digital painting using Photoshop and a graphics tablet. Really enjoyed it and can't wait to do some more!