Informing my Practice: What I need to work on

Personal notes: 

• Need to draw more surrounding sketched (interior and exterior) to place my figures.
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• More expressive figures. (facial and gestural)
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• Figures doing something and in motion.
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• More experiments including all that I have learnt in my Advance Drawing module.

Structures of Shapes

This week in the studio, using the still life set-ups I had to do informative drawings capturing form and shape, structure, tone and textures. Then from the drawing create experiment thumbnails incorporate some of the elements.

From the still life drawings, I created experiments using shapes and structure in to form of one of drawings, sequence and even a possible scene to use in my Children's Book. Though I didn't fully connect with this project, ways that I could improve would be to have more drawing to inform on texture and have a variety of different angles on a setup. What I learn't from this experiment was again the use of thumbnails and boarders can greatly help with placing and anchoring drawings in a space.

Abstract Composition

With this weeks task of Abstract composition, we had to first look through photographs and German Expressionist films to find the abstract compositions well like and use those elements to help identify them with observational drawings around the university. What I liked from the initial thumbnails from films and photos were use of light, shapes in the composition and distorsion or vast space. These elements were what I wanted to capture in my observational sketches.  

Drawing my sketches in the confinement of thumbnails helped me to better place and compose the abstract composition filling the space with the geometric shapes of the objects, where as if there was no boundaries I would loss the intention of an abstract composition and it would be hard to see or none existent.   

Joy and Surprise: Recording Expressions and Adding Intent

Working in a group of four, we were set the task of collecting gestural expressions of joy and surprise using line drawings. They had to be full figure gesture which included body movement, facial expressions and surroundings.

After collecting the drawings we had to then use them for our own intent. I decided that I wanted to create illustrations of nonsense, maybe embedded with contextual of theme of going/looking/having breakfast. 

Moving through Space

Brief: Figure moving through space.

Voyer approach using both birds eye view and below views in perspective. 

Personal notes after initial sketchs: I need draws of interior space to set all the figures in context. (eg. Full view of the refractory, pathways and more doors)  

Christmas Project

Christmas Project brief with the theme of "Christmas Shopping."

While doing my experiments I realised I didn't have enough drawn information for scenes and the ones I did have, since they were large drawing they took more time to complete. With my figure I had the intention of capturing gesture, expression and movement, which I feel I accomplished.

Experiment Sketches

Really rough sketches at the Shungo Exhibition at the British Museum in London with my sister, trying to capture the use of line and drawing the images that I personally liked. 

At the airport to go home to Cayman for the Christmas.

Continuing the Christmas Project brief at home with the theme of at te beach. Observational drawing of figures in action and developing figure drawings. What I would improve on is capturing figures moving  using various mark making, drew more scene sketches to improve my experiment sketches.

Experiment Sketches

looking at composition and capturing the theme.

Cultural Trip: Florence

December 3, 2013

Florence

Had the wonderful opportunity to visit Florence, Italy for my illustration course cultural drawing trip and since I love travelling I made every moment of it. Florence was a beautiful place and had so many inspiring view, places, art and people to draw from. 

Everyday we visited different museums from the Uffiz to Santa Maria Cathedral, I even saw Michelangelo's David. 

For my sketches I set out improve my figure drawings, in context to their surrounding and in art, along with bits of artwork that I found interesting or couldn't take photos of. I also went to the Florence Christmas Market and Brahms violin and piano sonatas performed by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang at Teatro della Pergola.