Visual Language: Flow Form and Force - Squash and Stretch

The next task for this brief was to do another set of poses that were in relation to 'Squash and Stretch'. Other than standing up and sitting back down, I found it quite hard to think of what other scenarios I could try and get people to manipulate. I think I came up with a good few though.

This first set, I asked my friend to do some yoga poses, though i'm not sure this would actually be part of an actual professional yoga class. This was a lot harder than I anticipated because the poses were more complex in the sense that they are not everyday poses and therefor I had to think about what i was drawing, more carefully. I also had the problem of drawing my friend smaller again which is a reoccurring issue for me! 

Quite a while into the brief I asked a different friend to do some ACTUAL yoga poses for me, and I think these are more like it. I focussed on the stretch in this set of poses as opposed to trying to get both squash and stretch in at the same time. I am most proud of this set out of the whole brief. It took me the longest to do, I probably did a little but more than 10 seconds for each pose because I wanted to have a little but of detail in there, instead of doing my poses so sketchy. 

Next I thought of having a squash and stretch scenario of someone going from standing to sitting on a chair, since it was my first initial idea and also just because I wanted to try it out. I did it with pencil this time, and I am NOT a fan. I really did not like the outcome to this, since I was actually timing myself 10 seconds, my set looks very untidy and I am quite unhappy with it. Because of this, this was my only set I did in pencil, though at least I tried it out.

Finally I thought I would get my friend to do some start jumps but not actual ones, just to try and manipulate it, and I think you can definitely get the jist looking at my set. I initially tried this out in charcoal and it just went awful, so I went ahead and quickly did it in pen and i'm not really a fan of this one either. 

Overall there were a few trial and errors in this second task, some went well and others did not, but I feel like I am learning a lot especially since i'm not using to drawing in such a short time and with a live model!