Out of Studio Work

We were asked to work out of studio this week and complete some tasks that our tutor set us and these included drawing our favourite item of clothing so i chose my green spotty jumper and decided to start of by sewing it which i really liked but it took me ages as i hand sewed the little circles which took ages but looked a lot better than doing it on the machine. The next one I did (below) i used fineliner and just used lines to create the shape of the jumper i was really pleased with this outcome as i hadn't tried doing this before so it was good to experiment and it paid off. i especially like the way the circles have worked so well considering it is made up of lines.

The next one i used coloured pencil which i don't normally like but it worked really well for this as i decided not to block it all in and just use shading to create the shape of the jumper. i then photocopied it which gave it a different look perhaps more faded which worked really well. i also like the thick black line of tone on the right shoulder against the faded green.

The next task was to draw a friend so i chose my flat mate Katy and experimented quite a lot with different media especially in the image below where i used biro, marker and fine liner. i quite like the strength of this image but i do think the colours are a bit too strong and the lines of the lips are too dark.

I think my ink image of katy (above) is my favourite as it is quite loose and has more life to it than the other images. i also like using ink as you can't really control what the ink does and this gives a good feel to it as sometimes the mistakes are the best bits.
The drawing below is in biro which is my favourite media to use as you can create a really slick line instead of it being quite furry which can work in some image but i like how strong the biro is against the white page. i do like this image but i think i could have worked into it a little bit more and i might go back and see what i can do and add a little bit more tone on her face.