Spider Goats trip to the Circus

tonight 2/3 of team spider goat (me and Glenn) and zade went to a circus practice to do some primary drawings of circus preformers. There was a lot of unicyclists, a few acrobats, some juggelers and we even got to watch some unicycle hockey.

ill add some photos and drawings to this post at some point soon

Reportage artist research: Olivia Keith

Olivia Keith is a reportage artist that mainly works with charcoal and colour. I love how although her drawings often don't have much colour you still have a good feel of the atmosphere in the drawing.

the thing i like most about the image above is how much the wight gazebo stands out from everything else.

 This image is really interesting because it is so busy i love the harsh charcoal on top of the soft water colour background.

 I love the interesting background in this drawing. I also really like all of the layers of different colours.

Reportage artist research: George Butler

I looked at some of George Butlers reportage work to get an idea of different styles. I really liked the way he draws so loosely but it is still clear what the image is. i also love how chaotic his reportage drawings are.

I love the splashes of water colour in the image above i think it gives the scene a nice feel.

 I really like the above image as it is a typical life drawing class scene but the artist has focused more on the class drawing than on the life model. I like that because it shows a different way of looking at things.

i love the above image because of how the splats make up the dogs face and body.

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.

Reportage artist research: Dominick Santise

As I continued with my research I found an artist named Dominick Santise. I likedhis drawings because they arent perfect but they still tell a story and set the mood of what is happening in the image. I really liked his drawing of the white house the bold black lines and the leafless trees give it a bit of an eery feel buti like that about it. One of his other images caught my eye and the reason I like this image is because you can really feel the motion in the image with the way he has smudged the lines to make the flags look likey they are being shuck by the people.

Repotage artist research: Eddie Peña.

Whilst searching for reportage artists that inspire me I came across Eddie Peña. I really like how he ads splashes of vibrant colour over his black line drawings.
I also like how his drawings look when he uses no colour at all because they still do what they are supposed to and show what is happening. One of his drawings stood out in particular to me and that is the line drawing of a barn with a big splash of red colour. I love it because the red just draws your eye in and makes the image so much more exciting. One of his other images that i really liked was an image of a man sitting on a park bench. The reason that I like this image is becuse you can see what the image is even though its slightly abstract I think the use of colour is really nice.