What I have been doing for the past two weeks?! I drew a lot off butts!

For the past two weeks I have been participating in a 9-3pm drawing class daily, as my third year Illustration elective. Anyhow we worked alot with charcoal for the first week and well I didn't enjoy using that medium at all.

This week, the final week, I was able to use whatever media I wanted. For the most part I preferred ink and acryclic....

Please keep in mind that this is a drawing course and in no way were these images finished, but simply a means of visualising forms and developing mark making techniques.

We would start with everyday, basically the class would draw the model without looking back at our paper. We had about 2 minutes to draw each figure and define what shapes we could in a continuous line. This activity was simply fun as there was the freedom in not having to worry about perfection but just drawing what you could see.

I struggled to use charcoal especially when we came to exploring tone and using it to visualise what I saw. I found willow charcoal particularly difficult to manipulate and build up tone as it is easily brushed away. When given an extended amount of time I was able to somewhat accurately convey a solid form and body.

I Felt quite proud off my recycled paper artwork, this was painted over an earlier charcoal drawing that I was not fond off. Acrylic was to be better-suited to my skill set, when it was on the page it wouldn't brush away or smudge unless I wanted it too. I built up tone slowly, using a variation of big and small brushes. Id push the tone back by wiping off excess/wet paint almost immediately and kept building up using this method. I aimed at being expressive over becoming completely accurate with my use of tone. Look at that booty!

This was a technical drawing which was divided with lines. The model wore stripes, likes Wally, and the task was to draw her accurately. I wanted the torso to be the focal point and despite adding highlights to it I overworked the crotch , which in turn distracted from the intended focal point.

And here are a whole other drawings that i did, not all but a few.

Should I do a give away? give away some of these artworks? Have a lovely day !