Friday Drawing Day: Deconstruct/Reconstruct.

Todays drawing day was focussed on mark making and assemblage techniques making use of a fragmented 3 dimensional object (a kinder egg) in order to create a series of 2 dimensional, 2 dimensional and spacial drawings. 

Part One: Mark Making.

This part of the drawing day was all about making a series of drawings by creating  marks with only your 3 dimensional object by deconstructing it and creating drawing tools along with different black and white media such as ink, charcoal and paint. 

Mark making like this is something which I have done before and I always enjoy it, I love experimenting in many different ways to create so many different and unusual marks. I think that on the page this variety of different marks look very sensitive and unusual. 

Part Two: Assemblage. 

Part two of today was about using only the fragments from the deconstructed 3 dimension object to create a 3D drawing or a series of drawings using assembly techniques to connect the components and rebuild the object/object to produce new structures and surfaces.

I decided to make this 3D drawing my drawing out the different pieces of the 3 dimensional drawings inspired by the work of one of the artists we were shown during the presentation of the brief, who drew the many different pieces of 3D objects like a camera. Although I like this piece, I think that I struggled to get my head around what exactly this task was asking us to do which is why i only had the time to do one as it took me a while to figure it out. I think if i had the time to do it again I would be more experimental in approaching the task in actually making a 3 Dimensional drawing.

Friday Drawing Day: Narrative Through Objects.

This weeks drawing day was about sentimental objects and drawing the narrative that comes with them. The object that I chose to draw was an angraved mirror given to me as a gift for my 18th birthday.

 

Here are a few of my favourite drawings which I completed during today:

 

 

I really liked this drawing day due to it being sop personal and the sentimental value we were trying to narrate through the drawing. This is why text appears a lot in my drawings as i wanted to try to express the way the object that I was drawing made me feel or the emotions/words i associate with that particular object. I used a variety of media which allowed me to create a variety of different marks and textures in the lines I drew and I also dreq on a variety of different collected papers to give the drawings this old, sentimental feeling in addition to the drawing made on them.

 

Drawing Day: Image and cut up.

Todays drawing day was all about collage and narrative, it was split into two tasks:

Task One: Collage from observation.

In this task we were asked to make some templates of shoes which we brought in and other peoples shoes which where then used to collage onto using a variety of different papers.

In my collages (shown above) i wanted to focus on texture,detail and form within the shoes I was representing. I'm quite happy with my pieces as I like the way the paper that i have collaged onto the templates looks and adds a depth and texture to the piece. If i was to do these again I think I would spend more time making much more detailed pieces maybe of part of the shoe rather than the whole shoe. 

Task Two: Pattern and/or composition development. 

From these collaged templates, we were then asked to use collage techniques to "abstract" these collaged pieces. The focus was on shapes and combinations of colour which we liked in our pieces then arrange them to create compositions. These could focus on pattern, narrative, repetition and where focussed on exploring space on the page considering negative space.

I think that this drawing day has been informative and useful to me within my practice. I have never experienced using collage in this way and I enjoyed having the chance to create narrative through composition and collage. I think these skills will transfer through to my work in the origins unit in my textiles world: Construct when i am composing imagery and text in my sketchbook swell as in samples. I think I am becoming more aware of being aware of composition and the way it can change a piece so dramatically. Also, negative space is really important in things like this, as they are in my samples within construct. 

Drawing day: placement and composition.

Today's drawing session was based on getting a sense of composition and placement within our drawings, with focus of negative and positive space along with making composition out of objects. The objects we where asked to bring in where two pairs of our own shoes, which we drew both singular along with in compositions with other peoples shoes. We were given different instructions to draw in response too when looking at these shoes, such as a l minute continuous line drawing, drawing from touching the shoes with eyes closed or drawing the negative space with gouache.

Drawing from touch. eyes closed.

Continuous line drawing, 3 minutes.

Negative space with gouache.

Composition drawing, 5 minutes.

These 4 drawings are some of my favourite pieces from the drawing session. Overall, I found this day really informative and interesting. I liked the way we were instructed to do certain instructions within a short time frame, as it made me focus on the quickness of drawing something and helped me to not be too precious about my drawings which I sometimes am. Although drawing shoes isn't something ill probably progress with again, it is the concept of compositional drawing and drawing certain objects which I definitely will develop within my own work like my drawings I'll be developing alongside my textiles world unit. 

Drawing Day: Colour Task

This weeks drawing day was focussed on colour and mixing colours. 

By having an activity like this to do, I think I have learnt a lot more than I previously knew about colour and mixing colours sensitively and slowly to get so many different shades and tones. These skills will definitely assist me in my textile world development work and development in my drawings, by introducing a colour palette my work will be based on.

Drawing in the studio.

Object Drawing.

"Make a compositon and draw it."

Alongside my chance card drawings which i have been working on from the photographs taken during the map the city task, I have been doing some still life drawing of objects given to us during studio practice.

I think that by doing these compositional drawings of drawings given to me, I learnt a lot about composition and still life drawing, which I have never had chance to do a lot of in the past. I really like some of the different lines and shapes I have made in representation of the object itself and the different types of media
I have used. In comparison to my other drawings I have been doing from the photographs I took in Manchester city centre, I don't think that these are quite as succesful despite me enjoying doing them. I feel that the photographs I have got will allow me to develop and expand ideas through my textiles world, whereas I don't feel like I could do much expansion from these object drawings.