Life Drawing S19

This is the last session of life drawing. Looking back, I would say that these are some of my best yet. I think my favourite of these is the one of his back when he is wearing a dressing gown. I am really happy with the shading. This session had to be done with a clothed model because someone had complained about having to draw a nude model in life drawing. While I, and most others, found this to be a bit stupid I did find drawing clothes to be fun but most definitely challenging.

Life Drawing S18

I feel like I have really improved with my shading after this session of life drawing. It was definitely a challenge to draw the model lying down because the distance was hard to capture. I enjoyed drawing the environment around the model but I was a bit slow to get a silhouette of the model done and then go onto the background.

Life Drawing S17

This session of life drawing had us look at drawing the model while they were walking round, like frames of an animation, and looked at the perspective circles on the floor again. Last time I found drawing the circles hard. However, this time I didn't mind them as much and I think I got the perspective pretty accurate. I find drawing a moving model hard because I like to take time doing the drawings and I find it difficult to drawing an entire model in a few seconds.

Life Drawing S16

This session had was interesting. We had to try a variety of things such as drawing from memory and not looking at the paper. It still surprises me how good my left hand is at drawing. The last image here was very interesting. To try and give the impression of depth to the drawings we had to use a warm colour pen for close areas and a blue for the furthest. I found this a real challenge but I did enjoy it.

Speed Arts

It seems I never posted these two speed arts. The first is of a face and was for us to practice techniques to speed up. The second was for us to practice doing things from the furthest to the closest. I used a brush with opacity to do the first one and I used a hard full opacity round brush for the second.

Art for Practice 2

This painting initially started as an entire dragon but when I couldn't decide on a pose I liked it just became the neck and head. I also decided to practice lava with this dragon. I had intended for the dragon to look more scary at first but then the form of a smile came out of it and I went with it to end up with this.

Blob and Whale Boy VD-S23

This session of Visual Design got us to look at lighting to start. We were given a silhouette shape and were told to light it. I decided to do a shiny material blob. 

Then we did another speedpaint. This time we started copying from a small blurred version of the image we were speedpainting to help us ignore the details and block everything out. Then once we had everything in basic form we looked at the high res version of the image. I did not finish the paint but I am happy that I managed to get most of the proportions correct. However, I struggled on colour and lighting.