The drawings on this post were created during the induction week. I attended all of the classes but due to doing my foundation year at Farnham there was a lot of things that i lucky already knew. Therefore i took it among myself to keep myself occupied and draw the people i saw.
I started off in the library, i wanted to draw a perspective drawing so i thought the best idea would be to draw other students studying hard in the library - in the end i had to tell the students i was drawings them as i think my stare was putting them off of their work and they were looking rather concerned. Therefore i tried to be as quick as i could hence why there is minimal detail. I could go over the drawing with more detail but if i did, i would be working from memory rather then studying from life. I like the way that the head get smaller, the reason why the females head is much smaller then the rest was because there was a space between the middle male and the female. Next time i would maybe do a bit more detail to their clothing to make it look more three-dimensional as it is quite a flat drawing. It could make a really good animation idea. I can imagion animating the three different characters working hard, typing away, and the benefit of doing something like this is there would be a lot to animate, maybe the eyes flicking up and down looking to the screen and keyboard; maybe a purse of the lips and change of cheek shape. (from studying the models i noticed that this was a common occurrence ) If i wanted to do it properly i could do a scratch of the head, and maybe a character would lean out of the screen and back in. Actually thinking about it, there would be a lot of possibilities to animate. But i could do the characters in layers so the only student in focus would be the character closest to the camera.
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My next adventure was to a coffee shop called 'Starbucks' in the high street. Thankfully the sun was shining so i got to sit outside and watch the world walk by and other people sitting with their coffee. The drawing on the left hand side i really enjoyed, on the table in front of me was a older couple, and thankfully the gentleman was facing my way. Again i'm sure he was aware i was drawing him (i do not think i'm a discrete person) I feel like i captured his face really well, he was facing into the run, hence the squint and im really pleased with the wrinkles on his face. I think it would be a fabulous drawing if i added some tonal range and really concentrated on making his face look three dimensional, all the markings on his face would have been challenging to draw but rewarding. When i think about how i could turn this into a animation idea it makes me think of the incredible feature animation film 'UP' - one of my favourite animations. The model reminds me of the main character 'Carl Fredricksen' its the stare that he kept giving me. I believe that botox kills memories, each line represents a story, the wrinkles by your eyes represent every time a person had smiled or cried, the wrinkles across the forehead represent the memories of being shocked, dissapointment etc.. I could do a whole animation based on the idea of going back into the memories of a older person and show why they have left a mark on the face. e.g. happiness of a first baby, the long sleepless nights, the stress of work, the happiness of another baby, a promotion, children moving out, grandchildren, the worry of cancer or a long illness etc. It could be really interesting.
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The image below i also drew in the same time as the other people above. I must admit i did take a photograph of the gentleman as he was wearing a shiny black suit and i wanted to really concentrate how the sun changed the colour of his suit. So it was not really life drawing it was more of a challenge. I wanted to concentrate on how the angles the sun was hitting the man and how the way he was standing and posing also contributed into the change in colour of his suit. It was quite time consuming to draw but im really pleased with the outcome. If i was to draw this again i would do the drawing bigger to take up the whole A4 page and i would not draw another drawing on the top left had side of the page. Overall i really rate going and sitting down in a coffee shop for a hour or two and doing some drawing, you can really get some great drawings and sketches down on paper and they can really fuel some ideas for some great story line ideas!
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