For the last Visual Language brief, we were to focus heavily on life drawings, under set tasks. The first one was to do four 12-18 sets of poses that reflect a person moving through a space. I had a really hard time with this brief, because for one i've never done life drawing before and secondly, I have never had to draw the same person twice! I did a bunch of these beforehand and wasn't happy with them, so it took me a while to do some that looked alright in the end.
To start off with, this set of poses, is supposed to illustrate someone spinning/twirling. Because these poses had to be held, a real spin couldn't take place, as they had to be stationary, so i'm not sure if you could tell a spin is happening unless I told you. However this was really hard for me to do. I drew lines at the top and bottom of the model, because I didn't want them to get too much bigger/smaller through out and used a red pencil and red fin liner to draw them. I am happy with this result, however I wish I got the chance to draw some hair as well.
The next one I liked was a walk cycle, which I did in a black caligraphic pen and then inverted the colours on Photoshop because when I scanned it in it looked SO much better this way. I wish I got the opportunity to use chalk but after attempting charcoal and failing badly, I experimented with other techniques instead. I know my drawings in this cycle get bigger and smaller but I just found that difficult to judge when drawing, but I tried to be as consistent as possible.
Next I did an exaggerated walk cycle in different coloured felt tips, and this time you can DEFINITELY tell that my drawings get bigger! I did not mean for this to happen, and at the time I didn't think anything of it but looking back I wish I had drawn the guidelines I had done previously in order for my drawings to be consistent. I do like the actions of the poses though, because they were easy to capture.
Then lastly is my least favourite out of this task, however I still think you can tell somebody is walking. I again, used fine liner and pencil as I found this was most comfortable for me to try and draw someone in ten seconds, however I found that the clothing I had to draw for this cycle was really hard! And I couldn't get the jeans right.
Overall this task has mad me realise just how little 10 seconds is, yet if you keep trying and trying you will eventually get some that you like! At least that what happened for me.
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