week commencing the 7th october

For the next three weeks we have three single week projects, The Walk Cycle, Life Drawing and The Human Echo project. My series of projects commenced with the life drawing module. I had previously had a lot of anxieties about life drawing from my past experiences, stuffy rooms, long poses and a critical "thats not in proportion" adjustment by my teachers at A-level. It was either traditional (their preference)or labeled "not good". I understand that it is a key skill but if it's not fun it becomes monotonous, unengaing and frustration causing, aka all the things art SHOULDN'T be. It was however such a relief that the tutor was interesting and expressive and allowed us to be as abstract as we wanted. He talked about how when we are drawing a figure we see reoccuring symbols from their appearance and draw from memory without actually looking. An ear doesn't become the same ear as the models but one from memory ect. A lot of 5 second drawings, a lot of looking at the model and not on the paper, a lot of quick fire expressive charcoal outcomes, very fun and VERY exhausting. I took a lot from it- it was very interesting and the ideas were backed up by clear views-( the guy had to be good, we found his sessions online for £1000 a pop!!!)
Some drawings I did over the first couple of days:

On the third day we had a different tutor who allowed us to do much longer poses using whatever medium we wanted. I chose to use ink and the piecesI created in the series below are my favourite to date, especially the square image of the bike seat. Although both tutors had very different approaches to the subject I feel like I got a lot out of the sessions. The third day session definitely focued more on composition and proportion (more traditional)- and the first two days on being expressive and using light to make a flat image. I reckon if it hadn't of been for the first sessions being so free and expressive I would of acted differently to the limitations that were put on in the last session (probably negatively)

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then we had to do two hour long drawings using chalk pastals which were, to put in the nicest way possible- tragic. Gross and smudgy and they didnt last very long at all AND as soon as you picked up the paper half of the colour fell off (literally) and messed up the whole page/ made everything blurry. urgh

After tuesdays session our tutor said that because we worked so hard, our drinks would taste nicer that night. Not only did the drinks taste nicer, i had one, two, probably three too many. The second years threw a wonderful welcome party for us, disco music, drinks tokens, food and lovely lovely company.

this is a drawing someone did of me!

our tutor as a pinata

oooooh lovely su bar vibes + facepainting!