In what way did you simplify and select in your study? Were you able to focus on simple shapes and patterns amid all the visual information available to you? I simplified by omitting details in textures, by drawing the outlines of shapes much simpler than they actually were, and by using tonal values rather than […]
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Check and log: Landscape drawing
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Check and log: Drawing animals
What were the main challenges of drawing animals? With the cats, the main problem was that they were moving all the time. This made it extremely difficult to capture any pose or detail. I was often left with an incomplete outline of a cat, with the head or some other part of the body missing […]
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Check and log: Drawing plants and flowers
How will your experiments with negative space help your observational drawing in the future? Drawing negative space definitely helps to draw more realistic and natural shapes, and I think whenever I was attentive to negative space the drawing improved. But I’m still at the beginning and need much more practice. The main problem is to […]
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Check and log: Drawing fruit and vegetables in colour
Your composition should occupy most of the paper’s surface. How much negative space do you have left? The question seems to refer to a distinct composition without specifying which one this would be… So I’ll answer in a summary fashion. Some of my drawings occupy quite much of the paper, for example the sketchbook page […]
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Check and log: Still life – line and tone
What aspects of each drawing have been successful, and what did you have problems with? I think I managed to place the objects well on the paper and arranged them into interesting compositions. Proportions are ok, textures are only sketchy but enough to recognize the objects. For the first still life group in tone, I […]
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Check and log: Detailed observation
Which drawing media did you find most effective to use, for which effects? In this project, I didn’t use many different media: Just felt pen and pencil. To my surprise, felt pen worked quite well for stipples and dots. Pencil was good for subtle shadings from light to medium dark. For darker tones and strong […]
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Check and log: Exploring coloured media
Which of the media you have experimented with did you find most expressive? Make notes in your learning log on the pros and cons of each medium. Which medium do you think lends itself to very detailed work? Which techniques, tools and effects do you particularly enjoy? Make notes about your experiments I explored the […]
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Check and log: Enlarging an image
How successful were you in copying the lines from the smaller squares to the larger squares? I think I wasn’t very successful. Enlarging the image only seemed to exaggerate the errors I had made in the small image. I felt no beauty in the large image and I didn’t like drawing onto a grid. Are […]
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Check and log: Using texture
Have you discovered any new ways of using your drawing tools to depict surface and texture? Yes, I have developed more variety in the use of line with dip pen and ink, and think I can extend this to other line-based drawing tools. I guess it will also influence my mark making with pencil and […]
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Check and log: Still life
Do you think it is easier to suggest three dimensions on man-made or natural objects? Try to explain your answer. I found it easier for the man-made objects, because they tended to have more regular shapes. Maybe my crude hatching technique was less disturbing when the objects’ shape was clearly defined – I’m comparing the […]
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