Advance Drawing Narrative Figures: Drawing in Oxford -People places and interactions

October 8, 2013

Third Session: Drawing in Oxford  people places and interaction

While at the Ashmoleum Museum in Oxford I sketched some of the exhibition items that I thought were interesting and connected to the last session along with people viewing the display. Using both pencil and fine liner to create images with some detail and quick gestural markings to improve on my mark making. 

   

Advance Drawing Figures in Contexts: Trade

October 1, 2013

Seconded Session: Figures in Contexts

Having Laura Morris, a musician that plays the french horn in the Glouster's Orchestra, model for today to learn and observe drawing figures in context. While she practiced her instrument I was suppose to capture every slight movement she made and capture her engaging in her activity. I used water soluble graphite colour tint pencils to allow me to quickly draw the figure as well as add shading to capture the light source. I also varied my use of line to capture light gestures. 

Since I enjoy drawing musicians, I decided to continue drawing them in my own time.  Looking at some videos that I had recored of musical performances, I used water soluble graphite tint pencils along with watercolour to entrap the wide motions and slight gestures of the musicians playing their variety of instruments. 

Advanced drawing Anatomy: Knees, movement and the walk cycle

September 24, 2013

First Session of Advance drawing Module

First started with studies of the knees to see how the muscles and knee caps change through movement. For this I used both a regular graphite pencil and graphite watercolour for easy and fluidness for capturing all the elements.    

Then watching two different walking sequence video, I used charcoal to give the sense of motion through each movement playing close attention to the the legs, knees and ankles.

After studying with the video of motion sequences, I went into the town centre and did quick observational sketches of people walking using both watercolour and graphite pencil. As I sketched I was studying the way each person had a different walk and wondered what could be the cause, whether it was if they were holding something, their shoes, attitude or age.