Creating Still Life, 

Using snow gear such as Helmet & goggles, Snowboard with straps, bowl of cereal, and boots with laces and a chair.

Very quickly drawn person dancing in snow..

Moving too fast to get anything other than boots and posture.

Sat down and drew a mountain from below


Drawing from life is ridiculous, you can not get the proper scale of a mountain without embellishments.

The reason for this is due to lines of of the mountain. You can not draw something observationally because in real life, there is nothing you can see to distinguish if something is in the fore or background. the way a person can tell is because of two eyes.

(fig 1)

Directed study for Week 11,

Using the anatomical drawings of torsos provided, I created three sketches.

The first of these is above (fig 1), in which after a couple of quick plans, i decided on a pose of a man picking up a box.

The First key point was to show weight, having the man's shoulders in line with his knees and feet were important for this. A slight problem came when doing the back, the lowest lines show the adjustments made.

The second point was to get the right tension in the muscles. The shoulders and neck are stretched, allowing a belief that the arms are holding something heavy. As the arms are relaxed, they would not show much, but a slight bulge on the lower arms conveys the pull of the invisible box.

(fig 2)

Picture 2 here came to me from an idea about Death from discworld.

In order to show the muscles properly, i removed a prop and drew it away from the main Torso.

With a more relaxed pose, the muscles dont need to look bulged. It also means that the muscles needed to look slightly sagging. In order to achieve this, muscle forms were started from the top point in order to become looser lower down.

Tension in the biceps shows that the lower arms are raised rather than just moved, being held in place.

(fig 3)

The Final Pose created is designed around someone playing cards, crotched and hunched up as to not show their hand

 the chest muscles needed to look very tensed up, to infer a hunched frame, with the neck down low.

It is a very tricky piece  and i did not do well with it. the arms are to splodgy, the shoulders are bigger on one side and pretty much everything is not proportioned correctly

Directorship 1 - The Corridor

Edit after writing: Actually... looking at it again, i can see that what i tried to do was start drawing again from the foreground and taking it out of proportion  Everything behind the door is at a scale and the door is at a completely different scale.

My First Directed Study is of a Corridor. The Corridor is situated from outside a glass door, looking through. There are circular lights and small indents where the doors are.

I really feel like i should be using a ruler to do the lines, but still continuing on.

I understand why we work on A3 size books now, looking at the picture and comparing it to the Real World, there is a lot of space in the middle of the image that has been squashed together. I believe that part of this is because I am looking from the top and then from the bottom, but because there is just blank space in a lot of the environment  my mind forgets the measurements i have been working in. this is something to keep in mind for later work. Details of the middle are brought into focus because of the darker areas and detail on the fire extinguisher, to counter this, details of the foreground and back ground are less defined. On reflection, i believe i should have put more detail if i wanted to do that.
Another problem is the light. i messed up the size and ended up with many lines trying to correct it, but my Foreshortening failed to work correctly even so.
In future, i will also lightly shade the carpet in order to show a difference between wall and floor (and in this case, the door in the foreground)