Experiments

Unfortunately I don't have all of my experiments here as some were also a part of my children's book project and I forgot to scan them before handing them in. The two here were painted directly into Photoshop, which is incredibly difficult and I definitely need a lot more practice with, I also need to start collecting textures, as the brickwork and wood just look terrible and unrealistic. Used some of the spaces that I'd drawn earlier as reference.

Object Drawing

A few drawings of head and facial feature sculptures, concentrating on accuracy of drawing and tone.
My use of tone is getting better but still needs a lot of work, especially when using pencil, which I tend to be very messy with and I've yet to figure out how to fix it.

Cotswold Wildlife Park

  The previous Giraffe studies were a big help when drawing them from life, I was able to very quickly jot down the pose. As I haven't drawn many animals before I decided to collect a few sketches while I was there, they all turned out fairly good and I don't think I need to devote too much time to animal drawing as I seem to have a decent handle on it, studying skin, fur and feather colours and textures would be quite useful however and something I should look into.

Giraffe Study

I have a commission to for a Giraffe painting so prior to drawing one for real at the Cotswold Wildlife Centre I decided to draw a few from photographs on the internet so I could get a better idea of how to draw them.

More Nero Drawings

Another drawing session in Nero, this time I was concentrating on the space rather than characters, although I did draw one of the more interesting customers who I could use for a character later on. I've much improved at drawing spaces, I used to have a lot of trouble getting things in the correct position in relation each other but other than some awkward angles for the walls it looks fine and can easily be used to inform other illustrations.

More Tower

The intent was to draw the tower again, showing a story of two individuals talking, I wanted to create some mystery a get camera angles more like a movie that a person following the characters. These aren't really finished enough to say if it was a success but there is a good start in the first one, the detached camera angle creates some mystery, I think it could be closer however, cutting out the stair railings, I could do with attempting this again.

Journey from Imperial Gardens Map

The first Task was to draw a map from the Imperial Gardens, I wanted to do something a little different than an over head map of roads so I tried to make a two diminutional view from the side, this was a little weird looking and in retrospect an overhead view with drawings of he spaces placed oolong the route would have been better. It took me a few attempts to get the route correct, I seemed to get a few pieces turned around in my head and I ultimately needed more viewpoints and areas along the route; I had drawn with a narrative purpose in mind and it wasn't too useful for this process. Another attempt at this could provide better results, the narrative using these drawing is underway and will be in a separate post.