practicing drawing people

i'm trying to practice drawing people and things as much as possible.

i will upload more at some point.

chair project

our project at the moment is based on gathering and collating research to do with a particular chair. i have chosen the electric chair. here are the images i have created so far:

i'm not sure how long the project is going on for, but we've been set another thirty images to do for it.

but im off to budapest next week.

yaaaaaaaaaaaay

late sundays and early mondays

quick moleskin sketches.

sunday afternoon

i went to joe and the juice by oxford street today, i really like it there, they play good music and have loads of slouchy comfy sofas. they had a copy of wonderland magazine there. so i drew a couple of people.

these were really pretty bad!

it's actually a celebrity, but im too ashamed to say who.

this was a lot better.

the nose looks a bit odd in retrospect.

i need to practice drawing faces a lot more.

drawing thirty people

on friday instead of a gallery visit we just had a general drawing trip. we went to spitalfields market area, and were told to draw thirty people, who had something to do with the word 'contact'. it was quite a good place for it as there was such a contrast between suited office workers and the people from the market and arty types from shoreditch area.

in relation to the word contact i related it to how all the people were in contact with a chair, and all were drawn in a couple of cafes, which could be considered a meeting point for contacting with a friend etc.

anyway here are most of the ones i did. some where too hurrendous to put up, i may even re-do them faces is something i struggle with the most, so this was pretty tricky for me.

the thing that made it the hardest was definately the amount people move! you don't normally realise how much you can fidget and move about when sat in the same spot, people moving their arms was notably tricky. it was also more than a little awkward if they looked up and saw you staring at them, especially three times in a row or so.

thursday workshop

today we had a workshop from ten till three, then a lecture at three for an hour. so a reasonably long but nice and productive day.

in the workshop we were played different songs in four categories (lazy, angry, weepy and happy) we then had to draw a response to each song. i found it quite hard really, i enjoyed the afternoon more as we were doing the happy bit and i was more in the swing of it. i'm not really one for doing abstract patterns and it took me a minute or so to work out what the song was about then i'd only have a minute or two to put something down on the page. it was fun still, and a good way to loosen up and produce a large amount of work in a day. it makes sense why we did it, and it did show how it might be important to choose the right music more to suit what im drawing at the time. 

so yeah i quickly took a photo with my phone, hence the quality, of my work on the wall, i'll put the full size images up next week.

moleskin sketches

if life gives you lemons.

too many things wrong with this.

the dog should have looked better.

the dog should have been in all black so that it wasn't a colour.

and i shouldnt have used promarkers on the next page; they will bleed through and i will never learn.

ruined sighhhh.

i always want what i.

i seem to like drawing mouths and moustaches at the moment.

and i bought some coloured paper the other day, which i am squeezing into every drawing.

i need to be brave and draw people's faces.

aaron johnson shall have to do though until that happens.

tuesday afternoon workshop

we all had to print off an photo from wherever. i photocopied a picture of some bears from a book on animals.

we then did a few 15 minute drawings.

 this was the first image, we had to reproduce the image using pencil. i did it with a 6b graphite pencil.

the next one was to use a water-soluble material, i used water colours.

i obviously wasn't listening as we were meant to do it with just one colour, so as to concentrate more on the mark-making.

i am hardly a dab-hand at using a paintbrush so that would have not turned out so well i feel.

i even forgot to do the fish that they're catching.

the next was to do a two colour linear drawing.

it went alright.

next was three colour again no black.

we could use shading or line.

sooorrrrt of pleased with this one.

the next one was to just depict the shadows

i did it in yellow felt tip pen and graphite pencil

i think that the top bear looks more recognisable really.

the final one was to change the position of something.

so for example if i was feeling braver i would have swapped the fish for the bear.

but i wimped out and just swapper the bears over.

i found it quite hard to visualise what's on the page and alter it at the same time.

tuesday workshop 1

we had to do five minute drawings in response to a particular word.

hard

i hate choosing and find it really hard

(first drawing of the day hence it's shockingness)

sharp

sharp tongue

turgid

slow sluggish car

(again terrible, and i didn't know what the word meant...)

guilty

judges hammer and the uneven line/mark-making represents the feeling of unease and uncertainty.

unknown

space/the universe.

breathless

diaphragm + scribbles

anxious

butterflies in the stomach + nervous awkward scribbles and marks.

procrastinate

general doodling, and procrastinating bothering to do neat small squares... ish.

anger

brain on over-load, over-spilling.

dark

heavy dark things.

it was a quite useful morning over all and we produced a good mornings work in an hour or so.