We were told to try new mediums in this lesson and told to bring chalk or charcoal. Now I found the hard way charcoal is an expensive medium to use only once so I still have 11 1/2 strips of it left in the box out of a box of 12. This lesson was about deforming Gordon's body but still keeping it in proportion, like long legs, little head but average sized body. We were told to draw 8 lines on A3 paper, I think, each representing the distance between different sections of the body. Some people gave him tiny legs, big head, big body. I however made him look like something from Resident Evil....it still haunts me. I don't think I got the hang of the proportions and I definitely didn't get the hang of charcoal, its messy, inaccurate and personally I don't think it looks very nice. So I will try to focus on pencils and shader pencils, plus I prefer the art style they deliver. Afterwards we tried our hand at shading. Gordon was sat in front of a projector and we were told to draw him, his shadow and any people sitting in front of us. As I couldn't see Gordon I decided to focus on his shadow being projected on the wall and rather stupidly used charcoal to 'color' his shadow in. That was a bad idea, not only did it not look good at all but it also wreaked any piece of paper it came into contact with. Also I tried to upload it but for some reason Blogger wants to upload it upside down and I don't know how to change it.
All I can say is tried charcoal and didn't like it very much. The more you know.
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This was my first attempt at using charcoal.
I'm not sure if this was a 5 minute pose, I
don't believe it was, still it didn't go well. |
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This is 'Slenderman's big brother' as people
decided to call it. As you can see the
proportions didn't work out well at all and in
the end I decided to actually make it look like
something from Resident Evil, hopefully not to offend
Gordon..too much. |
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