Thursday 10th November: Physical drawing studio 2


As i discovered in our first physical studio drawing session experimenting with getting your mark down on the page is critical to your practice. The first session was helping us practice scale and form, whereas the second was to help us develop our mark making and experiment with the materials we were using.                                                                                              

Therefore i moved on from using pencil, fine liner and black and white tones and started to experiment with using pastels and colour, which i actually found very rewarding. I wanted to carry the skills over i learnt in the previous session of interpreting a physical object in my own style. 




I decided to try something out my comfort zone and attempt drawing human form, which i haven't been good at in the past. I started with gently sketching the basic shapes in a light pastel then slowly built up the colours and capturing the light and dark areas by smudging the pastels. Even though some of the shapes were out of proportion i think the final outcomes were really strong and my use of colour worked really effectively.