Skill week - life drawing part two

-


The second day of drawing.Warm up exercise was quite difficult as it was only 2 min long and I used the fine line pen, I tried to avoid drawing , how does Sam said - the“chicken legs” (many short lines) I looked at the model body, shape, curves and lines and I draw firm, black outlines trying to keep the pen on the paper. We repeated those exercise few times and we tried blind drawing which was even more difficult. However the main point was to warm up the hand, not to draw the perfect picture

  

This time I had little bit more time. I started by looking at his arms position and where to start drawing, consider the chair and his feet. The left arm and the line of his back I draw first, then I concentrated on his legs and position on the chair. Awareness of time going wasn’t helpful, moreover using the black pen was difficult as its shows every single mistake. I love using fine liners pen when I am drawing cartoon characters, this was something new for me. I swapped pen for more thicker 0.8 to define the shades. It started looking quite well when the time stoped and we switched the model. 

 

When the woman sat on the chair, I almost stopped breathing. She chose the most difficult position for me to draw. I don’t know why but I am struggling drawing figures or characters facing right side, same as I am struggling to draw straight lines and using rulers. I tried to stay focus on her body and treat it as a geometric shapes which was very helpful. I started with thin 0.2 pen and during drawing I have changed it twice for 0.5 and 0.8 at the end to define shades. 
This is my favourite picture because for the very first time I define shade by using lines (not cross hatching  technique) and I drew someone facing right. shading on the leg is little bit messy because I started wrong with the straight lines, then Sam told me to curve the lines little bit as this is her leg and I need to consider natural body shapes too. I am super happy with the results. I wish to have more time to finish drawing.
 
 
My enthusiasm disappeared quickly when I realised how difficult is painting with ink. I remembered from the monochrome lesson how I struggled to paint the bag and the landscape. This time I made the same mistake by using dark tones first instead of light ones and slowly building up the shapes. 


.



 

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan13 February 2022 at 14:11

    The second session really demonstrated how much you had grown in confidence in terms of drawing and structuring the figure. Good effort, well done.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Eco Academy Tote Bag mock up

-
Image
 Finally I was bereave  enough to experiment with the Photoshop to create the tote bag for the school. I  started with the mock up picture which I found on the free mock up website, and I downloaded it on the laptop.  After transferring the picture to the Photoshop I used a clone tool to remove the design which was already there, however a few minutes after I have finished designing the bag I learned how to do it in completely different way. I knew I am doing something wrong as it took me to long .    I used the same free background logo which I created earlier in Procreate . I fit it to the tote bag size and I saved the picture in jpg, choosing "file" and " save as"  on the left top corner . I am happy with the results, the picture is sharp in a good quality. Mock up World, (ND), All free mock-ups, Available from:  https://www.mockupworld.co/all-mockups/  Accessed on: 01/02/22
Read more

research

-
Image
 In my project I will draw illustrations to a short story for children, therefore this research will help me to find information and answer to the big question: " What's make the great children book illustration? "  There is many factors what I need to consider before I will start drawing: - the age group.  - type an style of illustrations suitable for this age group - the book style - how many illustration I will include in my page. - what to avoid in the illustrations for children To decide in what style I will draw the pictures is also very important. Is that will be more cartoony or scary or is the pictures are relevant to the story. For example soft and gentle illustrations would not be perfect for a story about monsters. Go to the library an look at the real children's book is a good place to find the inspirations.  Is important to decide how many illustrations will be included in the book and what type of illustrations they are. That will affect to overal layo...
Read more

project plan schedule

-
Image
During the meeting with the Tutor ,we have discussed everything regarding to my project. I have introduced my ideas and my first sketches to the book. "The magic of the amulet" is a story written by my friend's daughter. There are three main characters - Abby the little girl who lives on the tropical Island with her friends: Olivia the dolphin and Patrick the crab. I already know how they will look like. I need to think how to draw the Island and mermaids. In my head it will be a magical and colorful,  fantasy World.  My first idea was to draw 4 pictures based on the story and to make front and back cover. The Tutor advice was to create two more pages as the story will be more interesting and easier to read for the children. We talk trough every page and I am convinced now that is good idea to draw two additional pages. I will use Procreate and Flipsnack and I will make a mock book  to be able to see how will my book look in real life. I was so excided with this idea , th...
Read more