I’m determined to improve… so I thought it would be a good idea to make myself a list of problems identified in the tutor report, and note down how I will respond or may have already responded. Somehow I’m already less negative about my drawings skills because when I compare my work for part 4 […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Response to tutor report #3: Problems and solutions
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What else
Today I was outside for a walk in the evening, it was already dark. I came by a tree that was entirely glowing in red light before the background of high-rise office buildings and the dark, cloudy sky. It looked wonderful and I took some pictures with the camera of my mobile phone. Red tree […]
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Assignment 3: Student response to tutor report
Reading the tutor report confirmed what I had expected about the reception of my work in part 3. I’m glad that those few drawings which I found better had indeed passed the test, but for the rest, honestly, I’m devastated. It’s really a question of whether this course and I will ever come together for […]
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Assignment 3: Tutor report
Overall Comments Patricia, although you have tried out several of the exercises in this submission, it is not your strongest. There does not seem to be much development from initial sketches which are preliminary and do not lead towards refined or well executed pieces. You have explained your constraints in your blog and although you […]
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Developing Assignment 4, seated figure: Preparations
The task for this assignment was to make two large drawings, one focusing on line, and the other focusing on tonality. Based on my experience with drawing myself and in view of a definite lack of persons whom I might ask to be my model, I thought I’d approach this task using photographs. Basically, I […]
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Check and log: Self portrait
Which drawing materials produced the best results? Why? For me, the 4B pencil and the coloured pencils worked best. I think this was because of their capacity to create subtle tonal nuances which seems to be important when drawing faces. Does your self portrait look like you? Show it to a couple of frinds […]
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Research point: Artists’ self portraits
Investigate some artists’ self portrait, both well known artists and lesser known artists. Edward Hopper (American painter, 1882-1967) When thinking whom to select, Edward Hopper came to my mind whose self portraits I had seen in the recent Hopper Exhibition, showing him as a young man and again later in his fifties. The later portrait […]
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Self portrait
I feel that I’ve finally got where I wanted to be all the time! Let’s see whether I can make something out of this project. Exercise: Drawing your face The task – Draw several five-minute sketches of your face from different angles to face and head – Draw five more quick sketches focusing on the […]
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Check and log: The moving figure
How well did you manage to create the sense of a fleeting moment rather than a pose? Maybe this is something that worked relatively well in my drawings, as I tend to have a non-perfectionist style and am impatient and prefer less to more. So in a way all my drawings have something unfinished in […]
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Research point: People watching
I had tremendous difficulties with this task. Firstly, I wasn’t able to observe people as intensely as would be required for later drawing them. It would have amounted to staring at them for prolonged times, and I felt this was socially not acceptable. I did not want to make people feel uncomfortable by staring at […]
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