One of my Trip

Trip To Hurst Castle

This was my first trip in Second year. College organised for this trip for photography assignment and drawing assignment. Hurst Castle is situated at the seaward end of the shingle spit that extends 1.5 miles from Milford-On-Sea. The address is 28 Park Road, Milford on Sea, Lymington, Hants, SO41 0QU. I went to hurst castle by coach with teachers and classmate from College. It took an hour and a half from College, as soon as we arrived to the distinction we all walked to fairies because we had to take fairies to get to the castle but some student walked for half and hour.

Hurst Castle is surrounded by sea so I got to take a shoot of natural beauty of sea with boats and ships going around. There are so many little stones on the ground around the castle. I took the picture on the top by moving around my camera to get full view. That is the view of the castle's back, at the front there are so many boats, fairies to cross to other area.
I also took a picture of light house in front of castle. In the castle there are so many history about the war stuffs, they are all so old but it was amazing that I got to see the stuffs that I never seen before. I got so many nice photo from going to the trip, I really like the view of front of the castle and the back. Castle's inside is looking so old but have one coffee shop for the people who come to visit to the castle.

This is one of the good picture that I've took it in front of the castle. The picture is showing very natural daylight of the front of the castle. That is the light house in front of the castle surrounding with long grasses. It was too windy so all the trees are going to the direction of where the wind goes that's why I really like this photo. It is so natural without any edition. The colour of the cloud is very natural.

I found many other objects in the castle which its very useful for my drawing assignment.  I like going to trips which is concern with my course that I'm learning. Every time I went to trips I got to learn more and more stuffs by going to many different places which made me to improve my ideas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GamgOgJ1g6E&feature=player_embedded
This is the link to see the video of Hurst Castle. It is amazing!!

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.

Micheal Robert (Illustrator)

Michael Roberts (born 1948) is a British fashion journalist. Multitalented, english Michael Roberts is a living legend of international fashion. He has became known for working, through decades, as a journalist, editor, illustrator, photographer and colagiste for titles like The Sunday Times and Tatler. Since 1997, he's director of fashion of The New Yorker. Tina Brown actually referred to him as "the Jean Cocteau of the fashion world".

He has only done four portraits among his dozens of illustrations: Grace Coddington, Karl Lagerfeld, Lenny Niemeier (Brazilian bikini designer and famous for her great parties) and Naomi Campbell. The last one was published in Vogue BR, in Naomi's special issue.

From Marc Jacobs to Louis Vuitton to Gucci, this summer’s fashion is writhing with exotic flora and fauna. Michael Roberts diagnoses the outbreak of zebra, python, and leopard, along with feathers, fringes, and bangles, as a full-blown case of Afrophilia.

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid born in 1947 in England, he is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His work, featuring letters cut from newspaper headlines in the style of came close to defining the image of punk rock, particularly in the UK.
He was educated at John Ruskin Grammar School in Croydon. With Malcolm McLaren, he took part in a sit in at Croydon Art School.
Reid produced a series of screen prints in 1997, the twentieth anniversary of the birth of punk rock. Reid has also produced artwork for the world music fusion band Afro Celt Sound System.

 This is one of his popular work call SEX PISTOLS
 The way he created this one is kind of cool, the United Kingdom flat is tear and trying to fix it up with those needles. 
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond. 


His works are a little bit awkward looking at my side. I never seen those kind of art so.
Reid has been exhibiting and publishing prints with the Aquarium Gallery, where a career retrospective, May Day, May Day, was held in May 2007. He now exhibits and publishes work at Steve Lowe's new project space the Light Industrial Workshop in Clerkenwell, London.
He is also represented by Isis Gallery who look after Reid's extensive archive.

Agnes Decourchelle (Illustration work)

Agnes Decourchelle is one of the illustrator, works in eye candy illustration agency. I have seen many of his works on the internet, all his works are draw with the colour pencils. He doesn't use any other techniques like other artist. He just used the colour pencils but every works are really looking good and colorful as he uses colour pencils.

In this first picture wasn't his work, he took the picture of his work, on his work he put all the colour pencils and then took the picture. Colours represents the rainbow and happiness that's why I like his work, they all look colourful and brings me happiness. It is kinda hard to draw with the colour pencil directly without you draw with pencils. I have drawn a few pictures of the same technique like him. You can see it on my sketchbook page 23, I love to draw it with the colour pencil but sometime I found it hard to draw it directly with the colour pencils.

This is one of his picture that I've found it on the internet, this picture looks really good. He used most of the colour is sky blue in this picture, sky blue colour is cool colour which makes people happy. And in the picture I can see that 2 boys and a girl are in the bakery restaurant with a baker, they look so happy. What I don't like is, its too bright when you look at it first, it only brings happy in later.
This is another picture of his work that I like, it seems like a boy is trying to feeding the cat outside of his house in the field and they cat was running away from him. Here again in this work he also used the bright sky blue colour so I can see that its very cold in the picture. I like this picture because the way he drew the distance between the house and a boy, it turns out really great. What I don't like again in this picture was its too bright.





In my work I done the same technique as him, it was kinda hard to do it the same as his style so I traced the picture with the colour pencils.