Charcoal Drawing On A1 Paper

On Wednesday we were set a task to draw a drawing on A1 paper, we had to use charcoal to dew with and we had to draw from a picture showing the them of layers. Down bellow is my drawing.

Observational Drawings

We had to bring in objects to draw from so I chose a wooden apple as it had interesting markings that I liked.

We then drew the object overlapping each other so that it looked like my object was moving making it more interesting to look at.

Working In The Style Of My Artist

When working in the style of my artist I wanted to make the background look like their work as well so  I coffee stained my work then I burnt my page to give the age effect on the page and creating layers.

The first skull that I drew was an imitation of Da Vinci's work that he did. He did many sketches of body parts and I have tried to replicate one of them. Down bellow is the imitation of Da Vinci's sketch of a skull.

These drawings bellow are some more drawings on me drawing in the style of Da Vinci. I chose to do objects that I have already done because I feel that It gives a contrast with the drawings of those objects (an apple and a broken pice of a plant pot).

Third Lesson

In this lesson we were taught a new method of drawing by starting form a rough sketch then building up the detail.

In this lesson we also drew objects from the outside in different media and with the method that we just learnt.

Second Lesson

In this lesson we continued the faster drawings but on a larger scale and in different medias.

Artist Research

Artist Research

As you can see by the picture that my artist is Leonardo Da Vinci. He was a 16th century inventor and artist form Italy. He is most famous for painting the Mona Lisa and The last supper. He is also famous for his very detailed sketches of body parts as you can see in the picture above.

Graphite Drawing On A1 Paper

In this lesson we were given an A1 sheet and a 9B graphite stick. We were told to make a view point for a picture of layers that we have taken. We then had to draw the image on to the piece of paper. With this drawing I tried to be expressive with my marking but I feel that they have come out like scribbles on the page so I will improve the drawing by trying to make the expressive marks more sutler by using my rubber to blend the colours covering the expressive marks.

First Lesson

In the first lesson we did short drawings of different objects, they were timed drawing to about a minute to two minutes long so are not hat detailed to what I would normally do them to.

I have added a full view of my sketch book to give you a view of what I did overall. I really liked the drawing in the top left hand corner off the sketch book so next lesson I will do it bigger to easily add more detail, as it is hard to add detail to a small drawing especially with a rubber as your way go making the mark.