matise

i really enjoyed this technique, it took me a while to get my head around cutting the shapes out but found i really understood it, i also liked using small pieces as i felt they linked with my muscle research which helped me a lot.

using a stick and charcoal

when starting this i found it so hard to control the stick and found whenever i tried to do curved lines they ended up being straight but after practising drawing circles i got the hand of it and think my sketches ened up better than i expected

finding my own style

i wanted to try a mixture of my favourite techniques and materials to work with to find my own style and decided on pen, which i was confident in and knew how to use it quite well, and paint which i wasnt so confident in and in the past shyed away from it. i think it worked well and made me feel a lot better about my painting skills

looking into muscles

i wanted to look further into more detailed into the human body and form and felt my drawing style lent itself well for drawing and found it very interesting to draw

using charcoal

first few sketches in life drawing

 when we only had a few seconds to complete a sketch, i think we all paniced a little

 i quite enjoyed the sat down poses it made me think a little more about perspective

Looking into skin tone with primary colours

own work

own work

when i came to working on the skin colour i found i struggled a little as my inital way of working was to use block color so i found blending the primary colours came a little tricky. looking back the blue stands out too much and could have been used less with a little more yellow and red added and overall less yellow as they look a little sickly!

overall i think they worked out ok and with more practise will come together, after doing the hand though i have decided to concentrate more on certain parts of the body a little more then to bring them all together in a drawing of the full body so that the areas im not so confident in are improved.

ARTISTmy own work

francoise-nielly

my own work

my own work

when moving on to paint i found i liked using it quite thick and stepped away from the neat way i was used to working in pencil and pen. 

i came across this artist and loved her work straight away as the face were built up of shapes of paint instead of it being done by blending. i prefer this way of working with paint as you cant get the same effect with other materials and wanted to experiment with it. i found my first piece worked out better for me as its more block like and not just a merge of colour as the second one turned out.











looking back at my work from last year i feel that ive really developed and still use this similar style and i still love this artist!!

Life drawing techniques

Triangle and circle technique

when doing this technique I found that I got over confident as the head technique looked very similar to this so I just tried doing it without concentrating as much so tried doing just the triangles and found that the images that came out at the end were out of proportion and didn’t work as well I also figured that using a line for the arms didn’t compensate for how wide the arms were going to be and found that they were a little out of proportion as well .

Life drawing techniques

Line technique

With this technique you use lines to make out the body. Mostly vertical lines are used for bits such as the legs and stomach but horizontal ones foe the shoulders and pelvis. In theory this makes a lot of sense and should make drawing an awkward position easily but I just could get along with it. I found I was drawing the lines at the wrong degree and everything was out of proportion so when I did decide to use this technique half way through I would revert back the head technique to sort out the mistakes I had made. I don’t think ill be using this technique because of this as finding another technique easier and more useful to use its only human nature to use it rather than struggle with one where you would be aiming for the same outcome.

Life drawing techniques

Head technique

This technique was the first technique I looked at. It is where you measure the head with your thumb and then fit the heads in the body. To begin with I made a dot at where the heads would come to and remembers a certain part of the body that the mark was near. I set this out for each of my sketches within life drawing after a few sketches I started become more confident and started to do it in my head, this worked well for standing but when I came to an awkward position I had to reverse back to making the marks to ensure that the measurements were right and after doing that for a couple went back to doing it in my head. For me this technique worked best. I think it may have something to do with it being the first technique I used and just stuck with it and had more practice with it or just that im quite mathematical minded and the measuring with the head came easier that the other techniques.