Life Drawing

Life Drawing

                using Charcoal

This is my first life drawing of model in the lesson. I really enjoyed life drawing because I got to learn more about drawing lines and shapes, tones and shadows. I drew this picture by using charcoal. I inspired Degas's life drawing that's why I drew the style of his which shown deep shapes and lines. I like his life drawing because they are very simple, he didn't use very thick line and shown the simple shapes of the body of the human that he drawn. I'm very pleased with my first life drawing of using charcoal. I thought it is going to be hard and it turned out pretty cool so I'm happy with my work. Life drawing is really interesting drawing because it is primary drawing. I drew the model who is laying down on the bed with white sheet. Drawing with charcoal is much better than pencil because I can do shading and shadows properly.

This is my second drawing of life drawing in the lesson by using Charcoal. This time model is sitting on the chair putting her hands between her thighs. This one is a bit challenging for me because it is hard to draw of the model sitting down rather than lying on the bed. So I found it quiet difficult of drawing on this one, it was also quite hard to do measurement of the whole body but at the end, final outcome is all right so I am quiet happy with this but I like my first picture more because it is showing the expression of the model by the way she lie down on the mattress. I really enjoyed today life drawing and this experienced taught me how to measure the human body in many different ways.

   

Evaluation for Chair

I wasn't really clear about what I have to do with chair assignment because I don't know how are we going to make our final chair ( what kind of material do we have to use to make final design). I kind of had difficulty at the start point, I don't know what kind of design I should make. Even though I'm not clear what I have to do I started thinking of my own chair designs to draw. I did researched of many famous artist, I looked at their chair style, I made a note that how they made the chairs, what kind of chair style they made most etc...

I drew many chairs as I can, at the end of the day |I made 2 final chairs with my own ideas. Each of my chair design is different, first chair is rounded style and second chair is square style. After I knew what to do with my chair I drew each of the chair in details. I choose the colours that it will look good and stand out. For my first chair I used white for outside look and inside is pink, I think they both are match colour and I'm sure that colours are that I want so I painted them. I used small electric light on that chair because inside its dark because it cover every way part from the front, I made pink caution to make it comfortable to sit.

My second chair is different with my first chair, its square style. I used dark colours on that chair. Left side of the chair I made a little small box that you can put newspaper or book and you can take it out and read when you are sitting on the chair. At the back I put another style of sitting style chair which 2 people can side giving their back, you can put other stuffs if you don't want to sit. That is my own idea as well I drew perspective drawing too in my sketchbook.

We did have enough time to finish our final chair so I'm happy with my designs, and i think I've done very successful. I worked on my chair in the lessons, my own time, anytime when I'm free I worked on them to finish it quickly. I really did enjoy with this assignment because this is my very first time that I had to make my own chair design and make it out with material. I think I completely finished them on time, I didn't have to rush to finish them too so I'm really happy with that. I think I'm always improving on every assignment and I try to get better for every new assignment.

Evaluation (Illustration)

Evaluation

I was very clear about what I have to do for this project. It was not really difficult to do but it took very long time for each techniques: drawing,colouring with colour pencils, painting and using ink pen for the outlines.When I received this assignment from my teacher, my first thought was I going to try my best to achieve Distinction and finish it before the deadline, which is the most important thing to do for every assignment. All the information I found it on the internet and in the lesson, I made a note on the every page for what I need to do in every single page.

I researched the 5 artists and wrote about them and their works on my blog http://maymtk.blogspot.com/. I always scared about what if I cannot handle my work on time so I always work so hard and trying my best to finish it on time. Before I move on my final designs, I drew 4 different type of technique by each artist that I had learnt in this project. I chose one of the picture that I wanted to use as an example then I started drawing with the pencil, after I finished drawing with the pencils I started using black and white ink style inspired by David Downton, on the second picture I used water colour and used ink for the outline inspired by Julie Verhoven. My third picture I just drew it with the colour pencils inspired by the two artists: Agnes Decourelle and Zoe More OFerral.

The last technique was the colour paper cut inspired by Michael Robert. I like his style most because that was really creative, but really hard to make for the tiny pieces on the dresses or shoe or stuffs it is connecting with the fashion model.After that I chose one of the techniques that I would like to do it for my final design. I chose the water colour with black ink outline because I like it most of all. It looks clearly and looking great and I hope everyone might like it too that is why I decided to do that technique for my final design. When I moved on to do it I had to choose 4 pictures, I had 12 pictures and each four are same colour, yellow, and green, red. I choose yellow because that colour present as sun so I think my designs will stand out if I use that.

I had learnt the new technique on these projects, I have never used ink and paper cut style before but now I know how to do it. I believe that I will learn more drawing technique in every assignment. Every works that I have done I stick it all in my book and organised very well so that when my teacher mark my book they will understand about every single work that I done.


If I will have an extra time for this assignment I will do more research and writing about my final designs and works. I think I completed everything on this project, I did have to rush on the day I have to give the teacher for this projects, I wrote annotation for the other works that I have not done it. Annotation was not really good but I did my best for this assignment and cannot wait for the next assignment and want to know what type of designs I have to do it.