Drawing the college

The first brief we were given for drawing was to go around the college drawing places with negative space and lots of straight lines, first in our sketchbooks, i did these using charcoal and black conte pencil.

I then used these drawings to create A1 drawings in chalk and charcoal.

I found all the straight lines tough going, ive never really done anything like this before on the large scale, i think my drawings on black paper turned out really well though.

Specialist Skills: Monotype

Monotype is a super easy printmaking technique, which allows you to draw directly in ink or trace an image as long as you use fairly thin paper.

The key is to roll out a really thin layer of ink to place your paper on top of, having too thick a layer can lead to patches of ink transferring onto the paper like the print below

These prints were made by creating a gradient of light blue and red ink and drawing directly onto newsprint and tissue paper. I managed to get the ink pretty thin and avoid placing my hand on the paper making the ink transfer.

 

I wanted to create prints similar to Eveline Koljin's work. She looks at patterns in nature and created a series of intaglio prints based on images of bacteria and cells coming together in symbiosis.

Image by Eveline Koljin from her website

Life Drawing

This is a selection of life drawing ive done this year, I felt like it took me a little bit to get back into it, i enjoy life drawing but i feel like if im not having a great class its hard to turn it around and produce work you feel good about. Despite this i feel good about a lot of the drawings ive done here.

 

 This is a page of quick sketches of a moving model

 

 Getting better at my proportions and feeling comfortable using charcoal.

 

I think this last piece is the best ive done so far.