Week 3 Homework task

Week 3- Skeletons, Anatomy and the Gothic

Quite a dark title for a rather strange lesson. We were tasked with drawing Mel interacting with a Skelton model and to try out different techniques. One of these techniques involved us drawing with a candle (which was rather difficult as we couldn't see what we created) and then covering it in ink to reveal our drawings. It was so fun to do and I wish I created more of these drawings using the same technique, as they came out looking so creepy and disturbing looking, which is rather fitting for what we actually drawing.
Our homework task for this week was to draw different locations at dusk. I decided to draw the trees and lake at my local arboretum. It was a peaceful and fun task to do, even if it was freezing. I used charcoal for all the pieces and worked back into them using a rubber to create light areas.

Week 2: Life drawing 1

For this weeks class, we had to draw different parts of Mel using tiny view finders, in order to get a close up of all the details we may miss when we usually draw Mel. I decided to draw four close-ups of her hands holding different objects, her face in different techniques with some spotty and others with very fine or faint lines. The work I made today has been so fun and also very messy, and doing close up drawings is something I will definitely do again.

For the homework task this week, we had to draw four numerous faces. These different people included a friend, a celebrity, a stranger and an icon. I decided to draw a woman I found in a magazine, a good friend of mine, Bruce Dickinson (the lead singer of my favourite band: Iron Maiden), and Winston Churchill. This was a rather un task.