improvement of technical skill
experimentation
building confidence
support your skils in your area of specialism
promote critical awareness through reflection
understanding the core values of each disipline
our learning outcomes are
the ability to use a range of media
articulate and communicate ideas (visual)
to inform and support your practice
develop your own visual language
reflective thinking and writing
a lot to take in for just the first session!
Concentrating on what drawing is all about, we looked at visual concepts we would explore throughout the drawing workshop. Line, tone and space. Using this as a starting point, we did a series of tonal drawings using a range of pencils. Our chosen object to draw was a very boring apple, however useful as a starting point as I hate being thrown in at the deep end!
My first attempt during the work shop were these two apples.My photograph taken on my phone is a little faded but the one on the left we had 2 minutes to draw in pencil and the one on the right, we had 5 minutes to draw.
Our next task during the workshop, still sticking with the apple, we had a longer period of time to draw it in. We had 40 minutes to draw the apple, looking and the line, shade and tone of it. At first I thought this is going to drag on! But actually when you got into the task, it didnt seem so long. The trick with this task is that you weren't allowed to start off with an outline of the apple, we just had to use shading to create the outline of the object.
This was my finished 40 minute apple! I was very pleased with the outcome of this.
Another task during the workshop was to draw the person opposite us without looking down at your page! This was quite awkward just starring at the other person! So my drawing turned out like this.
I think it reminds me a little bit of a Picasso piece, the way its completely abstract and random! but I do think I captured the main features of the face and of the clothing the guy was wearing.
Another task during the session was to draw a piece of tin foil! I never thought i'd draw a piece of foil, its such a random thing and also because of how difficult it would be to portray the intricate detail! Anyway, so without using an outline we were only allowed to use dots and dashes to create to drawing.
This was my drawing. I am pleased with how it came out. I thought that it would be very boring drawing a piece of foil, especially only being able to draw using dots and dashes.
So to conclude on this first session of the drawing workshop, I found it very fun and interesting. I chose to do the workshop simply because I wanted to improve on my drawing skills on a whole. In fashion, having the ability to draw is quite essential and I want to build my confidence in the subject. Having done all of these mini tasks in just the 3 hour session was quite tough, however I feel I've achieved a lot within that time already.
With the apple drawing task, I feel it was good to go right back to basics with line, tone and shape just to refresh my memory as I have done still life drawing like this before. I feel this will help me get better at drawing with some practice. I know that my 40 minute apple drawing isnt the next big thing! but I think I surprised myself with it, and I'm pleased with what I achieved.
Doing the task of drawing the person opposite, I found it very awkward and uncomfortable! However, I think this was useful and I would be doing this exact same thing when perhaps drawing a dress or a particular part of a fabric like an observational drawing, perhaps not starring at the dress or whatever it is but not looking at my page very often.
Finally, the tin foil task wasn't really my thing, maybe after a bit of practice then yes but initially, I didn't really enjoy it that much. I'm not really a lover of drawing fine, intricate detail too much. Maybe it would be something that would grow on me over time if I practised the technique and might be useful when drawing fabrics! So this would help me further on during the degree!
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