Nigel Farage facial caricature

In this week we were given a project to create a caricature of Nigel Farage in what we see him as. For this we made a clay model of him and I focused on turning him into a crocodile. Afterwards we were given the objective of drawing the caricature in different mediums. For this I used pencil, ink and felt tip pens. I really enjoyed doing this project considering I really enjoy making caricatures and it was fun making an insulting image of Farage.

Clay model

Drawing caricatures

Mapping through Cheltenham

Near the end of the first term, we were given a project to walk throughout Cheltenham, and map out a route that starts from Imperial Gardens to Francis Close Hall campus. Throughout this journey we had to draw items that interested us that related to the theme of Christmas because after we finished creating the map we had to make a one page A3 narrative illustration of the route using the theme. For my story I decided to have a Christmas elf walk throughout Cheltenham looking for a missing Christmas tree light since I noticed there was one missing on the tree in the gardens. The techniques I used were simple pencil design for the sketches of through the town but for my final piece I used felt tip pens. I enjoyed this work because we were given free reign of the route we could take as long as it went from A to B and of the story we wanted to make as long as it remained about Christmas, however if I would change something, it would be the time of when we did the mapping because it was too cold to draw on the actual day.

Pittville Pump Room

One week my year walked up to the Pittville pump room with the tutors and were asked to create some observational drawings of different angles of the building so we would get a good idea how it fully looked. Unfortunately at the time I had injured the thumb on my drawing hand and had to use my other hand instead for the drawings. Afterwards we had to use the information we recorded about the pump room and make an illustration of the pump room but we had to change aspects of it and as this intrigued me I decided to wait till my thumb got better in the next couple of days so then I could focus on it.. For me I decided to go for a theme from a movie I watched when I was younger Monster house. For this I gave the house eyes, changed the pillars to teeth and gave the statues weapons. Unfortunately my original recording were tampered with before I could add them onto the blog. I really enjoyed creating this illustration because it made me have to think of many way I alter an image to make it into something else. What I would change though is that I would've redone the observational drawings again on a different day with my better hand. 

Pittville monster pump room

Two point perspective

For our third week we had to draw the interiors and exteriors of buildings using two point perspective, here are a few of my drawings using the two point perspective. for this I used three different mediums, charcoal, pencil, and ink. I didn't really enjoy this work because I am not a giant fan of drawing buildings but it was very educational and helped me massively increase my skill in drawing structures. 

Line drawing

This week we were working on drawing ellipses using tone with charcoal and line with ink and ink wash. I did enjoy this work because it did grant me some extra knowledge on how I can make these shapes look better than how I used to draw them.

Creating a shape with shadow or tone

For this week we focused on making a shape using tone with the help of boxes that another year made. With these shapes I decided to make a building out of the boxes that seemed like an assault course as well. The medium we used for these were charcoal because it would create a better tonal drawing. I really enjoyed this project because it led me use my imagination to create weird shapes which I enjoy doing.

5 objects

In one of the weeks we were given a project to go around and find five different objects to draw from around the university as well as drawing some object within the drawing studio as well. We then had to change the images into what we could think of that could still let the items maintain their shape. With the mediums in this project I used pencil, felt tip pens, oil pastel, charcoal and ink. I enjoyed going around and finding objects to draw and change because it made me look at these objects in a different way and how I could visualise this different way.

Studio work

Object 1

Object 2

Object 3

Object 4

Object 5

Object 6

Object 7