Continued Drawings

Throughout the past few weeks I have continued to do drawings similar to the Chance Cards, however not with the guidelines. I feel that I can now expand on how I draw things and what I use to draw them without always referring to the chance cards. I am also going to use these drawings as inspiration when doing my samples for Embroidery.
 



Braided Hair
This is a drawing I did using black Indian ink. It is initially based off hair, however I ended up improvising a little. I used a very thin brush in order to make it look more like strands of hair. I quite like this drawing even though it doesnt look exactly like the hair I was drawing.

I was quite interested with the idea of drawing braided hair, which lead to me doing a larger scale version in colour. I stuck together two A3 pieces of paper using masking tape and used pastels to draw the hair. The drawing is done from a picture of my own hair which has been dip-dyed, this explains the colour changes.

Windows

 

Originally this was a photo I took in the City of some barred windows. When drawing it, I decided I wanted to add some colour but the windows themselves were very dull so I decided to add some brighter colours instead, using watercolour paint.

 

Chance Card Drawings

Our first task was to do 16 drawings based on Chance Cards which described how we had to draw each picture. At first I found it difficult deciding what object to draw and how to draw it, as in the past I've been taught that to draw something is to draw the entire object and make it look as realistic as possible. It took me a while to expand on what drawing is but eventually I began to look at things differently and draw them in alternative ways.

 



"Make a drawing using 5 different pencils"
This was the first drawing I did from a photo I took in the city. I tried to draw the full object in as much
detail as possible because this is how I'd been taught before.

 

"Make a drawing that fills 5%, 25% or 85% of the paper"
Originally I just drew the graffiti walls at the top of the page. However I then painted the
bricks they were made of in watercolour. I did this to try and experiment with painting a part of an object
rather than the whole thing.

"Make a drawing using layered sheets of transparent paper"

I decided the branches of a tree would work nicely for this chance card. However in the end I found

the outcome a bit boring so I drew more trees over the top using indian ink.

"Make one drawing using 50 different pieces of paper"

This is a drawing of the same tree above. Again, I wasn't pleased with the outcome so I decided to turn it

into the 50 pieces chance card by cutting it up.

 

 

 

When I had my meeting with the tutors I was advised to try and work on a bigger piece of paper.

Here I used two pieces of A3 paper together to create A2. The objects I drew were a jar of dirty water and an ice cream

scoop, using indian ink and pastels.

"Make a light drawing on a dark background"

I drew a section of a chain bracelet I own using pastels. I think this turned out quite well and it is

one of my favourite chance card drawings.

 

 

I developed this drawing from the one above. I decided to try it again on a light background with different drawing materials. This time I used indian ink and in some places watercolour.