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Observational drawing. Week 1


This week we started one of our units which I'm really excited about. And that's of course observational drawing. I did this unit in the BTEC course quite a few years ago now and it was one of my stronger units. now that I'm doing it at HNC level I'm expecting more of a challenge


So we came in on Thursday morning and sat down ready to start. we didn't know what to expect. just that we would be drawing. we are then instructed to bring the extra chairs from the second room through which was odd as we had plenty for the students. We then moved all the tables back to make way for all the chairs we brought through. We then we witnessed the creation of a mountain of chairs for us to draw.




This was the first task we were set out to do which was on yesterday. We were to draw using only line work which was an interesting challenge. it made us think more about the definite shapes of the objects and we had to work out perspective. We were given a helpful tip to make the closest object appear that way by making more darker thicker lines. This worked very well I thought.


For today's task we worked with different tones instead of lines which was a lot more forgiving. I found that most of the object could easily be moved and adjusted as I worked through it. it was very much like a problem solving journey. I tried to focus on the image as a whole and not focus on one specific area. it forced me to explore the positive and negative aspect of the drawing but in very fluid way.

Finally I took a few photographs from a few different areas of the display to try and capture the different tones and perspectives we had to deal with, this was a very fun exercise. We also dived into a bit of mono printing which I will write about in another post as I didn't get any photographs of them today.  


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