HA1 Task 1 - Mark-making Portfolio

Anatomy

Exercise 1 - Direct Observation Portraits in Pairs

These exercises are designed to warm you up and start drawing more freely from what is directly in front of you. In addition, the idea is for you to experiment with the techniques and media you are introduced to and not worry too much about the outcome.

1. Full Face

Paper: portrait

Media: biro

Time: 4 minutes

Left-handed (or right, if left-handed)

Instruction:

Top of head/hair must touch the top edge of the paper, the chin the bottom and the ears each side. Draw loosely and freely adding as much detail as possible.

2. Cheesey Smile

Paper: landscape

Media: biro

Time: 4 minutes

Usual drawing hand

Instruction:

Smiling mouth to stretch from left to right-hand side of paper. The rest of the features to fill within the page.

3. Don't Stop

Paper: portrait

Media: coloured marker pen – any colour

Time: 5 minutes

Usual drawing hand

Instruction:

Draw a full face portrait that fills the page, but you may not take the pen off the paper at any point.

4. Blind-folded

Paper: portrait

Media: coloured marker pen – any colour

Usual drawing hand

Instruction:

Stare at your subject intently and draw a full face portrait. Do not look at the paper until the time is up.
Exercise 2 - Secondary Observation Self-portraits

Six Selfie-portraits

Take a range of selfies, exploring the expressions below. Choose six, the strongest for each of the expressions.

Divide an A3 sheet into six panels and make a pencil drawing from each selfie, taking approximately 15 minutes. 

Start by loosely sketching in the composition within each panel and then start to work on the tonal range of the image, establishing the lightest to darkest areas. The order and orientation is up to you, but use an additional piece of paper to protect the drawing so that you don’t smudge your work.

Include your original source images when presenting the work on your blog.

In this picture I created six boxes in these boxes I did self portraits, I didn't mind that the task had a lot on creative design instead of a construct picture and what I've taken from this task is that I need to fill the page more.

Exercise Number 3 - Manga Facial Expressions

Six Selfie-portraits

Use the YouTube tutorial here to draw the two Manga-styled heads representing joy and embarrassment on an A3 sheet.
Publish your work to your Unit 69 blog following the layout on the example blog.

In this picture I watched a YouTube tutorial which I found easy to follow and I managed to make the drawing closely resemble the original. This exercise was challenging and I think I found it to be a good start in building up a better skill in drawing.

Exercise Number 4 - Gridded and Scaled Parkour Drawing

Using the reference image from a Parkour App character, use the gridding technique to transfer the smaller A4 photographic image to the larger A2 gridded plain paper.

I aimed to convert the photograph into a simpler illustration. I taken each square at a time and I simply drawn the picture by square. I gave a lot of attention to the face because it was the main foreground then the second figure I added lesser detail because he was in the background but the text I kept bold so the viewer can read it. When the image was drafted out I used shading and coloured pencils to add my own creative touch to the image, I really liked drawing from construction and gridded scaled drawings because I'm not very good at drawing proportion of images and this task helped improve my drawing skills.

Exercise Number 5 - Template Mythical Creature Drawing

Start by using a graphite pencil to transfer and scale the main elements, then colour up the drawing using coloured pencils and complete it with a fine liner (be careful not to simply draw around every line again, be selective. Use the paper effectively to create an interesting composition.

This method of drawing was a fun and creative experiment and a task I liked, this has been the most creative task out of the five. I think drawing from template is an advantage when creating characters for video games. I took inspiration from animals and comic books the head being from Hellboy and the arm taken from cyborg (DC Comics) the rest of the body is from spiders, camels and the torso is a scorpion.  

Exercise Number 6 - Expressive Hands Drawing

Divide an A3 sheet into four panels and make a pencil drawing directly from your hand. This is designed to be expressive and so start by loosely sketching and blocking in the composition within each panel and then start to work on the tonal range and detail of the image, establishing the lightest to darkest areas. The order and orientation is up to you, but use an additional piece of paper to protect the drawing so that you don’t smudge your work.Carry out  a series of four observational drawings of your non-drawing hand that suggest the following: Anger Stop OK Peace

I found this method pretty hard compared to the others because it was primary research, i understand i must work harder on this method because its my weak point. 

Exercise Number 7 - Figure Movement Sequence Drawing

Using the props provided carry out a photo-shoot in the studio of you using a sword and shield to step, block and then lunge. The DSLR camera will be set on multi-shot mode and will capture the movements you make in a series of photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

Exercise Number 8 - Silhouette Figure Drawing

Using a series of dark felt pens, produce a series of 8 figure drawings observed from life that study the pose of the model, but only draw the negative space around the figure (NOT AN OUTLINE), leaving a silhouette. Work loosely, but carefully.

Perspective

Exercise Number 1 - Isometric, One, Two and Three Point Perspective Introduction

Isometric Perspective Projection,

One-point Perspective Projection,

Two-point Perspective Projection,

Three-point Perspective Projection

Exercise Number 2 - 2-point perspective Background - Space station video (links to an external site.)  

Exercise Number 3 - crating introduction

Exercise Number 4 - crating application - pistol

Colour

Exercise Number 1 - colour introduction

Ideas Generation

Exercise Number 1 - alternative uses for clothes pegs

Visual Communication

Exercise Number 1 - how to guide

Create a guide that explains an activity using only images and symbols – NO WORDS. You will need to use the internet to research your chosen activity, both the process and visual aids. Use an A3 sheet to layout your sequence of images. Plan and sketch out your sequence in pencil and then outline it using a biro or fine liner (and coloured pencils or pens if you wish).

Objects

Exercise Number 1 - Tonal Paper Studies

Using the supplied rolls of paper create still life environments and produce a series of four, close-up tonal observational studies of paper constructions using pencil in response to the following themes:

Tied

Twisted

Folded

Curled
I found this method really helpful to draw as I could hold the object and get a feel for the structure and hopefully recreate it on paper. I will use this method in the future to maybe create a game level or world with Lego or other types of equipment. 

Textures

Exercise Number 1 - Willow Charcoal, Soft and Oil Pastels

I am are going to draw a series of 9 textures (closely observed abstracted sections of surfaces) from around the college site, three using soft pastels, three using oil pastels and three using willow charcoal. Fold 1 A3 sheet of cartridge paper into 9 to use as your canvas. This was a interesting experience because of the range of drawing equipment we had to use.