Drawing

Drawing is going well. I responded to the brief quite quickly making a range of drawings without planning them at all beforehand. To begin with I didn't think this approach was successful because the drawings looked messy and very rough, but as I have made more and viewed them together, they have begun to have some significance.

 

I have become quite reluctant to draw lately because I haven't practiced it seriously since AS Level.. I use drawing as a part of my natural process in developing ideas, but mainly continuous line drawing and very quick sketches. The topic of drawing also makes me feel guilty because it is something I know I should keep up with, having focused on it and enjoyed it for so many years.

 

Chosing the sources was fairly easy: the wasps nest, which is just so intricate and fascinating, a macro eye shot by photographer Suren Manvelyan, and the photograph of my shopping bags on washing line AS experiment, which still interests me now.

 

 

 

Today I set myself a target of making a detailed, studied tonal drawing, as a test of my patience, which I feel I have latterly lost. While I was drawing I was thinking about how it is very easy to rush artwork.. my reason for not painting is that I don't have the patience, and the same for drawing, and the same for learning how to use a proper SLR camera... the same even for using materials such as wood and metal - (as well as being afraid of the machinary) I can't instantly manipulate them with my hands like I can with paper and the materials I have worked with recently... I need to be more patient, clearly. A new goal.

 

The crit today went well. I really enjoy hearing about other people's work and I was told I work in a similar style to Eva Hesse, which made me happy. Today I also found myself able to describe and interpret work in more detail and with more depth; I think I am getting better at viewing works with an emotional response, as well as just looking at the obvious aesthetic. I think this is probably down to thinking and looking at the works for longer, something that has been encouraged by all the tutors so far.

 

Not really sure how I am going to develop my pieces yet.. I am going to think about it over the weekend. Initial thoughts are that I'd probably like to keep it 2D just so I can have a go before I go back to my usual medium.