Life Drawing 3rd of February
Author: Marco Drago
Body Acting
So this took me about 20 hours, and I’m very happy with how clean it turned out but man it doesn’t feel like 20 hours work.
Again Steve’s advice for this one was to hold on the cigar lift and remove some of the downward frames so it feels heavier. Seems like working with weight is something I really need to work on.
Sketchbook
Mainly just notes and more character sketches this week. I got a few sketches from the Horniman museum but I failed to take photos
Life Drawing 20th of January
Wellcome Collection
My sister came across from Wales to visit for a weekend. So a bunch of us went to the Wellcome Collection not fare from the uni.
Always fun to see the weird shit this Henry Wellcome guy collected (cough cough definitely not stolen), Victorians were messed up.
One of the best things about taking my sister here was her confusing reading all the plaques saying “Why does this guy Henry keep welcoming me”
Lift
Redoing my lift/push/ pull exercises. Making it a lot simpler. My main effort was to try and make sure the ball looked heavy, Steve suggested I make the arch slower so the impact feels heavier and making sure the bowling ball doesn’t move to early.
Sketchbook
More sketchbook pages demonstrating my obsession my gibbons mainly.
Also my attempts to improve my character design by using different face shapes.
Victoria and Albert Museum
A couple of us went to the V&A museum, after the first term.
Seeing their whole exhibition on period costuming was stunning and all of us were talking about character design, and it was especially interesting to hear Luna’s opinion on historical accuracy, when her presentation had also been about it.
I also have a real soft spot for classical art especially religious art. I love trying to decipher the story from a signal image, and the emotions of the characters. I think that’s why I first went into illustration to try and display just a scene of a story, and let the audience guess.
Mood Change Walk
This took me way too long and I had such a hard time with the follow through on his bells, which Steve pointed out still doesn’t really work. But overall I’m really happy with it, there is an obvious narrative and I think it’s pretty funny as a concept.
If I have time before my deadline I’ll try to go back into it and fix the bells, but right now I need to focus on actually completing my other assignments… and this blog
Life Drawing 13th of January
the more I attend these sessions the fast I feel like I get with my gesture drawing. My 30 second poses are always my favourite because they feel more dynamic and in motion.
One thing Vanessa suggested to me was to not get as carried away with details especially on the 3 minute poses if I need to it’s ok to more around the room for another angle. Also exaggerating poses is encouraged, this kind of life drawing differs to what I’m used to. It’s about breaking the body down and drawing the action not what we see