Colour experiments

Today we were looking at the Saturation, Tint and Tone of colours and how certain colours fit together better than others. I picked three colours I liked and then showed them in full saturation, tinted and toned.

Then I experimented with how they would look along side each other, and how the boldness of some can change the way others look. I reversed some experiments, so if one colour was the small box in the middle I would also see how it looks being the bigger colour too. This really changes the over all  look and feel of the two colours beside each other. 

Figure sequence

We were looking at drawing a short sequence of just 3 to 5 frames, with at least 2 different view points. After being told we were going to work into them at a later date exploring colour I kept this in mind when trying to decide what to do. 

I decided to do a short sequence of a boy going up to bed, with the idea of it all being very grey, but his dream would be in vivid colour.

Mapping

Today we had to 'map' our journey from the top of town in Montpellier, down to uni. First of all I just started with walking, deciding which way I wanted to go.
Then I decided to draw my way, looking at the buildings, focusing on what buildings stood out the most to me.

Whilst doing this I noticed a big difference in the doors and door frames I was seeing. At Montpellier they were all very intricately designed and elegant, but the further along my walk into town the doors became more basic and run down. So I decided I wanted to map my journey through the doors I saw.

People

This time we were looking at the perspective of people. We were shown this sheet that helps explain how to draw people from off angles and not to make them look like they have miniature or non existent limbs.

I am not very good at drawing people, so I was dreading this task. But actually I started to become at ease with drawing people from angles. We started in a small group by looking up or down at each other and drawing what we could see of that person.

I found it much easier to draw looking down on people, rather than looking up. Im not sure why, but the drawings above of the two girls sat down I think are portrayed better for the angles they're in. Ive struggled to get the people I'm looking up at, to look like they're above. So i decided to draw Sophie here, which I'm looking down on. This time she's posing where I can't see her left leg or arm. This was more challenging as it could of looked really strange, flat and wonky. I think I've managed to get it right though, and actually by drawing her stood like this I feel its only enhanced and exaggerated that I was looking at her from above. 

We were then shown how to exaggerate certain points of the image to really show the perspective off. So with Tim standing on a table above me, I wanted to exaggerate the fact I was looking up by making his shoes and the bottoms of the trousers larger, as that was the thing closest to me.

                                                                                                                                                                                         This was my attempt at exaggerating the proportions. And I think that even though it is more obvious he's higher up than me in this image than some of the others, I think more exaggeration is needed to make it more effective. 

Ellipses

This time we were drawing Ellipses, which I was dreading seeing as I found rectangles in perspective hard enough. We started off by drawing various objects in the studio, trying to get the angle and look of the ellipses right.

This took me a while to get in to. But once Jen demonstrated to me that although the ellipses at the mouth of the mug looks like it has a tight curve around it, you still have to draw it with a smooth gentle curve so the viewer can see it more clearly as a mug, I found this exercise a little easier. Again, I never knew about the tweaking of what you see so that you can draw what is actually there.

After we had practiced on these, we had to go out and look at the ellipses in cars. This was a struggle with the various angles of the car wheels, and the fact these wheels had depth to them that had to be portrayed right to give the impression of a correct car wheel.

I started off by drawing squares with a cross through around where the wheels should be, I found this very helpful with getting the size and even angle correct. I would then turn these squares into cubes to see how deep the wheels should be. This made the beginning process a lot easier to visualise and to see how I had gone wrong. And so I practiced this method on a few cars.

Rectangles

In this workshop, we were working on drawing rectangles from different angles and views. This is something I've always known I'm not that good at, and after not doing it for a while I had forgotten how difficult it is as well. Perspective overall, is something that I know I need to improve on, and so starting with something like this was the perfect start for me.

I started by drawing mainly smaller items, such as these boxes and small drawers that were around my desk at the time. I thought this would be an easier place to start, but proved to be just as difficult. I really struggled with the perspective of all of my drawings, and so went over them again and again until you could clearly see the true shape of the object.









I was then showed, that sometimes you need to lie about what you see, for the truth to be shown. And this made it a little easier to start being confident with my sketches so that the shape of the images was being shown quicker and more easily.