Comm Tech 2: Sketchbook Work

Friday, 29 October 2010

Drawings from My Sketchbook

I normally draw small, detailed drawings so here I was trying to experiment and fill an A3 page. I'm a perfectionist so it took me about 5 hours to complete the bottom image... and the top one just took so long I gave up (which I never EVER do).

Tree which took far too long to draw!

Black fine liner

Tree Silhouette

Black Fine Liner

A3 Double page spread

"Tree Silhouette" (bottom):

It wasn't until really near the end that I realised I had miss judged the size and would have to spread over to the other side slightly, which I feel ruins the image (although you can't actually see thins in the photograph).

I should plan out my illustrations in pencil first
or work on paper larger than necessary, making the assumption that I'm going to miss judge

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Drawings from My Sketchbook

Drawing Darwin as a tree

Small Sketches from A3 page

I had an idea that Darwin could be a tree: they're old and often said to hold secrets. I thought I would draw some sketches without any reference as this is something I don't do very much and would like to get better at it.

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Drawings from My Sketchbook

Study of Darwin

Black Fine Liner

A3 Double Page Spread

Again, I have tried to speed up my drawing. The drawing top right was drawn from memory and the drawing on the bottom right was drawn without taking the pen off the paper. It helped me to pick out Darwin's main/ key features within his face (big nose, big bushy beard and eyebrows, deep wrinkles and prominent ears).

Drawings from My Sketchbook

Drawings of Tree

Various Media

A3 Double Page Spread

I have experimented with various media and colours- fine liner, water colour and pencil crayon. I am a bit of a perfectionist and far too precious about my work, thus making me a very slow drawer so here I have tried not to spend too much time on each image.

Drawings from My Sketchbook

Tree

Black Fine Liner

This tree took me at least 10 hours to complete. Despite this it has made me realise how much I love spending time on the minute detail of illustrations, I feel it gives the tree more character.