September 30th: Reportage

Today I went out on a few different locations and did some reportage drawing. Here are a few of my favourite sketches

 I drew the view from outside of the window first. I experimented with using dots of ink for the leaves, I really like how it turned out because although it is one block colour the tree still looks like it has depth.

After university I went for a coffee in town. I didn't have my sketch book or a pen so I took some napkins and borrowed a pen from the man behind the counter. I decided to draw the tables and chairs outside then drew some from inside. The drawings aren't the best because i found it quite hard to draw on tissue paper. I still like these drawings though, I think they tell more of a story than the other drawings in my sketchbook. 

Later on that night I went shopping in Asda and decided to draw as I was walking around. I just used biro pen in my sketch book. I actually like how it looks because I think it shows the fast movement that is often found in a supermarket.

September 30th: Life drawing

Today we had a nude model come in and pose for a life drawing session. I used a lot of different techniques, for example I used my left hand for a few drawings and didn't look at the page for some.i also tried not taking my pen off the page and covering one eye to draw. I really enjoyed doing these things because it made it a lot more interesting and fun rather than just sitting and drawing. I really enjoyed the session below are some of the drawings that I created from it.

Two colour 

Woman's body with someone else's head (Dans) 

Continuous line drawing 

Not looking at the page 

30 second sketches 

Half drawn with left hand half drawn with right hand 

29 th September: Drive to Hinderwell

Yesterday I went on a drive to see my aunty in Hinderwell (near Whitby.) The drive is really pretty and scenic I took advantage of this and did a few quick sketches of the passing countryside and roads. When I returned home I worked into a few of the sketches and added colour, I experimented with water colour and coloured pencils. I like the look of water colour more than I like the coloured pencil because it looks a lot more natural. I also decided to take the image that I drew of the inside of the car and use cooking oil to make the window transparent so the road drawing from the next page would show through. I think this worked really well. 

25th September: Drawing at Hartlepool Marina

i went over to the marina to do some drawing but the weather was wet and cold. I ended up mainly sitting in the cafe. I did a few drawings of the inside of the cafe, i also did a drawing of some boats outside. I think ill re-visit the marina on a better day to do some proper drawings. I used a few different things on these drawings mainly pencil and felt tip pens. sorry about the images a few of them have gone upside down and side ways and i have no idea why or how to fix it :/

24th September: Drawing at the beach

We went to a small beach behind Hartlepool Marina. The day wasn't that nice because it was really foggy but it gave the beach a really creepy look which i liked. The beach also had a strange coating of what looked like black snow this made the scene even more weird. I took a photo and did a few drawings. I think using the charcoal all over the page worked really nice as it gave a good fog effect. I also used a few other things to draw with such as Biro's and coloured felt tips. below is a photograph and a few sketches that i liked

23 rd September: Burlesque dancer

We had a burlesque dancer come in and do some modelling so we could do some life drawing. I had a fun time drawing the fun outfit that she was wearing. I used a wide range of media from ink to crayons, i also experimented with some left handed drawings. I think that i actually like the left handed ones more than the right handed ones because they have a more fun unique look to them. Once i had done my quick life drawings I took them back to the studio and worked into a few of them. I have posted a few of the drawings from it below.

19th September: Drawing people

Here are a few drawings of people in class. We started off drawing our own hands we were only allowed a few seconds for each drawing so they were pretty bad. Then we moved on to doing quick sketches of other people in the class. The amount of time we had for each sketch changed every time so some are better than others. I have included a few different sketches below.

18th september Bradford trip

Last week I went on a trip to Bradford with my university course. The first place we visited was the Bradford industrial museam, I managed to take a few photos and do a few quick sketches whilst visiting. I also listened to a very interesting talk about print presses it was really nice to learn about them, I have always wondered how they work.
The next place we visited was the media museum I had previosly been here with my college but there was lots of new exhibitions there. I really enjoyed the exhibition that showed how childrens story books have been made into film. There was a section showing Oliver Jeffers, one of my favourite illustrators work so I loved looking at that. I did a few more sketches and photographs from here as I had a bit of free time before we left.  I also had a little wonder around outside and had a look at some of the beutiful buildings.
Overall it was a really good  day.