Evaluation; Observational Drawing & Mark Making
Project
During this project I have faced some new challenges involving having to learn new skills for drawing and mark making techniques. The first home work I got presented the most difficult of the 5 tasks to complete. This was due to the standard I wished to achieve within this task. Also I have never really been good with tonal observational studies before, so I had no faith in myself to do well. Although I'm glad I gave it my best shot as the outcome was better than expected.
Within all 10 of my tasks; including the 5 homework's, I exploring different ways of applying media to create interesting drawing and mark-making techniques. I accomplished this by using a range of different media, both wet and dry. These include the following; pencil, oil pastels, water colour paints, colouring pencils, chalk, water colour pencils, felt tips and even acrylic paints. I used pencils (HB-2B) to produce (2X) study sheets, 1 using a key as my object and the other was a pair of pliers. On each sheet I used a normal HB pencil to demonstrate at least 3 techniques on drawing my chosen objects. These techniques are as follows for the pliers drawing; cross-hatching, tonal shading and a continuous line. For my key drawing I used 4 other simple, but effective which were; scribble, vertical lines, horizontal lines and erased drawing. All the techniques are very simple but all extremely effective and powerful to the eye.
The 4 studies that I have done on different backgrounds have been very successful. The 4 backgrounds we has were; ripped paper, brush-o-inks, white acrylic and bleach. The ripped background was the first one I completed and think that it turned out very well. This was because of the detail I applied on my drawing particularly on the watch. On the brush-o-ink background I found that my skills were definitely improving as by the time that I had finish the work, I saw that the detail I have applied on all the objects was much better than on the first background. On the white acrylic background I found that it wasn't as successful as the first two. I think this was because of the texture on the background and also the fact that I couldn't find the right colours to match the objects I was drawing from. For the last study, the bleach and brush-o-ink; I couldn't use the bleach because of health reasons so I used acrylic paints instead. This proved to be less successful on the brush-o-ink background as the paint kept mixing colours with the ink and made them the wrong colour all together. The outcome wasn't bad, it was okay but because of the colour situation the effect of the drawing was limited. So if I was to redo this one, I would not use paint on this background. The task which I have labelled E; the sgraffito drawing, in my opinion was very effective. This was because of the scratching technique using the sharp end of a compass the scratch away all the black paint to reveal the colourful oil pastel background. As I didn’t use just one colour to create the background the effect was very strong as all different colour showed through when the paint was scratched away.
My homework which I have labelled; G, is the one which was the most successful. The way that I used my pencil to help me create different tones in my drawing and my rubber to make indications on all on the objects for highlights, worked really well. I spent 3 hours plus on this task which is why I think that the outcome was amazing. H also was very fruitful just like G. This was due to me completing the task on time and to the standard I was hoping to achieve. This task of using the technique of just line drawing to draw a pile of shoes, this task showed to be truly effective. I spent about an hour on this task which if I remember correctly was a bit longer than I was asked to spend on it. So when I sat down to take on the 3rd homework task I was expecting it to be more complex than it was. I have labelled this task I. This one was to draw in colour pencils a pile of crumpled clothes. So for this one I felt the outcome was first-class. The detail on the blanket I drew was really good and the colour pencils work effectively on the black background. I spend about an hour and a half on this task and I think that that was a reasonable amount of time on this task. The 4th task; J –a biro drawing of perspective of a corner of a room, I didn’t work as well on this one as with the other 3. This was because each time I attempted to draw this; I felt that it didn’t look good enough. So I finally I decided to do a very simple corner in my room which, looking back on that choice, I think it was wrong. This was due to me only spending about 20 minutes on this task.
Over the course of this project I feel that I have definitely improved my observational drawing skills in some ways more than others. I have improved mainly in tasks that I have started and finished in time and not rushed. For example; the task of drawing on 4 different backgrounds showed where my skills have shone and where they have not. The first two boxes are really good in my opinion whereas the third and fourth were not a success. This was as I missed these weeks due to health reasons and had to rush to get them on the last day before my deadline. I'm not saying it’s an excuse but I would have preferred to have been able to complete them when I should have rather than rushing through them. Also I think that my variation of techniques have vast improved over the project. This has been shown on the first task; A1 &A2 (exploring 1 object in no less than 3 types of mark-making skills). Although some of the techniques I chose to use were simple, they were all very effective to others and also to me. Throughout this project I think that I managed my time very well and effectively apart from on two parts on task D. The last two I had to rush through as I have already mentioned. Overall, I think that I have used my time wisely and very efficiently. I feel I have produced the some of the best drawing and mark-making outcomes possible. I feel this strongly about tasks; A1, A2, C, some of D, E, G & I. All of the tasks I have listed I believe that within the time frame I was given, I have achieved the best I could. One other technique I would like to have looked at would be printing. Block and screen printing are techniques I am familiar with and enjoy doing. Also there are things such as mono-printing, pointillism, digital mark-making and also maybe even contour drawing. Overall throughout this project I have had the opportunities to try and improve my skills in observational drawing and mark-making techniques, because of this I have found that from all these different tasks I have try many things and accomplished tasks that I thought I could never have done in the past.
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