23-30th January 2012- More Figure Studies from Loomis and Action Man figure

I'm starting to find the photographs having more volume and depth to the figure then my actual pencilled studies of them... oh well...

Imagery done in AS Art (2003-2004)- Pieces Done on the Theme of 'Home'

These are some of the pieces, done digitally and traditionally, that I did whilst on the theme of 'home'.

These two are just two classic examples of how not to use a simple filter facility in Photoshop .

This is only page I have scanned from my submitted sketchbook for assessment. It just show some photocopied images with some colour slapped on with some paint.

So from trying to make art out of photocopies, here is an actual painting, based on studying the works of Tracey Emin. So I really wasn't making that much original art during my time at college.

An Old Sketch Book... with Some New Drawn In Too!

I found this old sketch pad, the other day, and I decided to have a look in. Amongst all the notes- which date to probably my GCSE days from the French revision- there were a lot of doodles.

I do like, amongst all those cartoon heads, I was attempting to draw actual characters, like R2D2, or a villian from the PS1 game Rayman- I guess I was born to do some fan art, now and again.
So noticed that there were some pages left in the old book left. So, I did what came naturally to me.... use it up, of course!

So the top picture was really just me sploshing some paint about, as I was working on a watercolour illustration, which was based on the above 3 sketches of my face- I might get around to uploading that piece soon.

I even did some studies from the Loomis book, but I might make a proper, where this drawing came from, when I get around to doing some further scanning.

Loomis Study- More 'Eternal Youth' Studies

These were a challenge to do. I was also experimenting with different pencils to achieve different ways to learn how to construct these faces from this book.

Loomis Study-'Eternal Youth' Studies

I have spent some time on holiday during the past week. Which means that I have a backload of several drawings to get through- and probably some photographs when I get around to sorting them out too.
So here are some studies on several more heads on a page from that Loomis book.

Loomis Study- A Lot of the 'Twenty Kids' Study

Some of these were successful, and some of them weren't.

Life Drawings, and the First Batch of 'Twenty Kids' Studies

My life drawings seem to be all over the place, with no major definition of the objects being drawn. On the other hand, I am able to fully understood how to construct several of these heads in this Twenty Kids exercise in Loomis' book.

Final Batch of "The Women Folk" Studies, and Life Drawings

I'm quite please with how the heads came out, showing an understanding of how the heads were constructed, as well as how they were drawn.
The life drawings were also successful, as they got me to loosen up when I was trying to draw this array of objects. Although, I prefer the bottom image, in terms of its composition, but the other drawing shows more effort towards overlapping, and spacial awareness of the objects.