ASSIGNMENT ONE

Exercise 4 - shadows and reflected light

Still lifes using charcoal (urghh) of two objects with different reflective surfaces. I had several goes at this as I found it rather hard work. I don't particularly like charcoal, and also I find ellipses pretty difficult as you'll see. After another chat with my friend down the road, I got the idea of leading edge and I think I improved slightly.

Project 2 - Basic Shapes and fundamental form

Here we're looking at groups of objects, shadow, mark making and tone

Exercise 3 - Creating shadow using lines and marks

I enjoyed this one, as it really is something new for me and not something I've really tried before. I found I liked using lines for hatch marks, etc, but found using dots incredibly difficult and tedious

Exercise 2 - Observing shadow using blocks of tone

Firstly, two pale simple shaped objects with one light source

Exercise 1 - Groups of objects

 We had to take at least  objects and create a loose description of them using just one colour, making note of the shapes between them and the reflections etc.

Exercise 2 Experimenting with Texture

 This was essentially mark making, but I don't think I quite got it as I've just drawn the textures in detail rather than experimenting with different marks. Actually the mark making was a new thing for me, as so much has been so far. Talking to my friend (ex RSA) he recommended that I have a look at Rembrandt's work in drawing and in mark making and so I ordered a paperback and two on the kindle so that I can blow them up on the ipad and take a closer look.