Scanning This Week!

The past week has ben pretty terrible for m actually, I`ll be writing it up on my live diary blog later on today. It`s been busy and quit upsetting and I walking out of sixth form twice and having a day off because of it.

So I haven`t really had enough time to scan work in and talk about my newest project, I swear that`ll I`ll get there soon, it`s just been a strange week for me so far and I haven`t really had time to scan everything through properly. I`ve got some artist inspired designs finished, a few watercolour and fineliner drawings and I`m still working on a series of observational drawings and a few more fineliner ones. My sketchbook is practically finished for now and I might even scan a few pages of that in.

It`ll take some time but I`ll update again soon!

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Quick Flower drawings!

 I`m struggling already with my newest project, Obviously I`ve got a decent amount of photography done and I`ve started off with some observational fineliner drawings and pencil drawings (some still aren`t complete yet). But finding a good source for drawing and actually getting a good drawing done is proving to be a bit awkward at the moment since It`s hard to find naturally dying flowers as everything is growing for spring at the moment.

I`ve been trying to find new things to draw and ~I`ve been trying to find a decent variety instead of just plain flowers with black fineliners and It`s starting to become very awkward now since that is all my work contains at the moment. So right now I`m kind of hunting around for something else to be drawing and something else to be working on instead of bloody flowers all of the time.

So I have to keep on thinking back over, what is the decay of nature? What else can I relate the decay too, I was originally thinking of buildings and things that we abandon and leave to waste, which is where I got the building idea from. However, finding abandoned buildings is getting hard now since everywhere I go has "NO TRESSPASSING" symbols around them, so it`s getting a bit awkward and difficult to find somewhere that  can legally go to take pictures or sketch something.

I`ve got some ideas in mind at the moment, not ideas about where to break in to an abandoned building, but some ideas as to what I could possibly begin to draw and print, well hopefully print anyways. From my photography close ups, I need to begin picking out different bits that I can piece together and then draw, because at the moment I`ve got really large scale leaves and then a pile of moss and twigs, so everything needs to be pieced together to create a perfect piece to draw from or something that I can trace and then use fineliner to create something to print. It`s at the point where I have no idea as to what I should be doing, it gets like this with everything single project I do and It`s come down to it once again.

It happens to almost every art student though, you should all know the struggle by now and obviously my struggle, because I`m absolutely terrible for it at the moment. I was like it at the end of my last project when I had nothing to do, and now I`ve been given work to do  have no idea as to what to do... I`m a pretty awkward person when you think about it.

As always, `m hoping that I get there eventually, I did bring a hot glue gun home so hopefully I can et some sort of 3D work finished in the net few days aswell.
However, if I do get some 3D work done before I head back to sixth form, I should be able to begin some final piece preparation work that will go towards my final piece for this exam, and this time around, the exam is going to be 3 days long instead of 2 days.

I hope everyone said goodbye to the hair!
It`s a lot shorter now and all I`ve

got left to do now is dye it back to brown!

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Negative Space Drawings!

A simple branch with two leaves.

So here`s something slightly new...

I think we may or may not have gathered that I hate observational drawings, so here we go, I BLOODY HATE THEM! Since no one wants to do them right now, the teachers have come up with a compromise; we don`t have to do a pencil observational drawing but we are aloud to get some other form of drawing done or at least started. Of course, my head starting racing as soon as we got given the project brief and I knew I wanted to start with something that I hadn`t tried out before, and here`s one of them.

Negative space drawing is quite strange actually, well I think it`s strange anyways. It`s not strange in the way that it`s hard to do (which it isn`t), or that you can`t have much detail, but mainly the way that the objects take shape even with random squiggles and stuff around the shape, quite odd to me. But then again, I might find it odd since I love to just fill pages either with colour or black ink, which is usually my style of working... So even something this different was actually quite different for me to start off with, as odd as that sounds.

You basically just have to have a simple outline of an object that you want to work on. Then the way I started mine off, was to have a thick bold outline of the image, and then start shading; the idea is to start off with darker tones around the edges of the image, and to then blend them out into the white, so basic shading really.
The only problem that I have at the moment with the finished look of them, is that they probably need to be a bit darker and take longer to blend out into the white, and the fact that there`s too much white also puts me off some what. I might get some more done on black paper instead, but use a white biro around the edges instead, just to show that I`ve tried out another way of making a Negative Space drawing. I do quite like the finished look actually, the fact that there`s just no detail makes it easy on the eye.

What I`m going to do next with them...
God bloody knows at the moment, I`m kind of lost for ideas and I`m currently looking at a few more artists to give me some sort of inspiration and ideas for this project. I have thought about getting rid of the white areas with a craft knife and placing an image behind them so you can see through to dead plants of grass or something along the lines of that. Also, I need some sort of more complicated design to do this from, they seem to plain and too empty when I just do simple designs like this, so a bigger range of more complicated designs is a MUST have.

This week, I should also be uploading some fineliner drawings and some observational flower work from one of my sketchbooks! I`ll pan them out over the course of next week since I have the week off.

Also, say goodbye to the Purple

hair!

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Third Project, Photography Session!

To kick start the project... I completely forgot about drawing actually, I went straight towards the photography route instead.

So David is doing a pretty creepy project this time, It`s all about the Transformations of urban Myths and Creepypasta kind of stuff. So he naturally wanted to go somewhere creepy-ish to go and do a photography session.
The only creepy-ish place that we could think of is actually an abandoned theme park, that could of possibly got us arrested actually... Luckily that didn`t happen and if it did, then I would be bloody screwed!

For starts, we had to walk for about an hour to get to this place, it`s called American Adventure and it closed down ages ago. I used to go there all of the time when I was younger but had completely forgotten about how big the site actually was. Everything has been knocked down and removed now, and you can still find some of the really creepy images on Google. The whole place is still fenced off, hence why if you get caught you can get arrested.

Just to clarify, we didn`t actually go in, we wanted to go in just so we could get some awesome creepy looking photos and then get out. There was a part of the fence that was completely torn down and people used to get in and muck around in there quite a bit, I just wanted to walk around the bloody lake! But yeah, we never did get the chance to get in to the actual place, but there`s still loads of pictures on google of what it looked like when there where still a few things there, but obviously I`m not going to use those images, I want my own!

The main idea was for David to get some really creepy looking pictures done for his project, and then for me to get images of nature dying and decaying naturally by itself. We are quite lucky since there is a public footpath that takes you down to the old American Adventure car park, and if you walk down the car park, there`s a footpath that takes you all the way around the site of American Adventure, but it takes a while to walk around. The whole footpath was surrounded by trees and bushes, so I could of gotten some good close ups of leaves and stuff if I wanted too. Instead... I went behind all of the bushes and trees, made my way down to a swampy bit and then started to get some photography work done down there. It was quite interesting to do actually, for starts, I felt like a big kid again; I used to climb trees and go for walks on the park and stuff when we first moved into our current house, so yeah, doing this little photography trip with David just made me feel like a big kid and I wouldn`t stop messing around whilst we where doing it.

It was really fun to do, I haven`t done photography like this before where you have to work together to get the best possible outcomes and I really enjoyed it. I felt like I was annoying David just a tiny bit though since I was dancing around and climbing through bushes all because I saw an interesting leaf. I`m looking forward to doing more stuff like the with David, the only problem is... I annoy him quite a bit!

Over all, there are 23 pictures that I took for myself and then David took about 26 photos. So as you may of guessed, I`m not going to upload 20+ photos on the blog. So most of the images will be on Deviantart so if you follow the link below you`ll be able to find the majority of them over there, I haven`t uploaded them all in one go yet, so the rest will be up over the next few days since I didn`t want to just bombard Deviantart art with tons of photos.
Keep on checking over the next few days to see the latest photography images and hopefully, some scanned in sketches that I`ve been doing!


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New Project! Truth, The Decay Of Nature

If you haven`t seen by now, on the Live Diary Blog that is, I`ve recently started my new project and my last project at sixth form.

this time, we actually got a decent project for once! we where given the choice of three different words; Truth, Fantasy or Fiction. For starts, I`ve been thinking about what I could possible do for the past few months and I just needed to re-ward the theme. So, I`ll be doing Truth, The Decay Of Nature for my project.

I originally wanted it to be quite a controversial project, about how humans damage the planet that we live in. But since that could cover so many different topics, stories and situations that we put ourselves in. I would probably end up doing tons and tons of research, with then just plain drawings of dying flowers or something, so I really, I ought to just stick to the Decay of nature as a whole really. Dying flowers, seasons and the decay of the things around us that we miss everyday should just be enough to get me going for this project. I`ve already come up with a few ideas for my final piece, perhaps a series of boards with different stages of decay and different colour schemes foe each one, I still have until May to get everything ready for my three day long exam... Which I`m not quite looking forward too, three days of just exam work. I`m going to have to start early and find some wood to use. Along with all of that, I still need to get my experimentation work finished whilst getting all of the preparation together too.

I`d say the next week is going to be quite busy, unfortunately I haven`t gotten that many drawings done to show everyone. I`m going to scan some work in, but they`re mainly flower drawings that I`ve done in one of my empty sketchbooks.
Next week, I won`t be at sixth form, and I might be at Shed2Studios with Dawn Turner again for a few days during that week. I`m lucky I guess, I get to work with Anna Roebuck and Dawn Turner!
Looking forward to this new project!

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