Drawing for Illustration

  Reflection:  I love life drawing its one of my favourite things to do. there are quite a lot of successful drawings here I think, in fact I don't think there is such thing as an unsuccessful life drawing. It has been interesting trying different techniques, some I like and will use and others not so much.I particularly like the ones where I have used shading to express light and shadow, i think it gives the figures more volume.

Reflection:  I really enjoyed this activity. Accurate representation of geometric objects such as buildings is rather difficult, i can see in my resulting sketches where I haven't gone quite right. I do think on the second image however I have captured a sense of space and distance using the perspective of the building as a base. This is an activity that I feel you can never do enough of, and Id like to motivate myself to do sketches of this kind on a regular basis.   

 This is the design I wanted to use for screen printing. I really like the design and think that since its black and white it would work well. I am not sure if the lines would be too thin/faint in order to print from so I would create a digital version where I darken the colours a bit if this version is unsuccessful. 

 The final outcome of my dry point etching: Reflection: I am quite sure that the paper must have been too damp when I went to print this dry point etching. However, I really like the outcome which is the most important thing. I wanted this to feel like an old vintage coin with a man with no identity displayed and I think that's what I got. This could have been a lot cleaner but in some respects I am glad its not