Lens based media day 1

Hello!

This week I will be talking about lens based media. 

Reflecting:

The first task we were given was to go through images that we considered as personal ephemera to us, and to draw this out in the time limit of 90 minutes as best as we could on A1 paper. I feel that I got on with this task very well as I progressed, although had much difficulty in the start as I'm not use to drawing portraits or people. From many peers I got generally good feedback, and this helped the development of my work as it encouraged me that I do have more potential in drawing people than I previously thought. From the oberall task I learnt that I was better at people drawings than I expected however it came only to the outlines. Afterwards facial detail was extremely difficult and for future work I do not be beilive that I will improve at drawing people or faces as I like working more with solid shapes and forms, not sketchy looking pencil drawings. Also after drawing most of our pictures. We were asked to use ripped up paper to block out aspects of our picture. These aspects were meant to signify the main sections of the drawing and bring more attention to it.  

Analysing:

I think the main successful part about my work is that I got a strong outline of the photo I was drawing and that they looked extremely detailed on the outlines. Also the hair on both me and Dynamo on the photo was commented on by other students as being identical to how they looked in the photograph I was working from. While completing more of this work at home I wasn't happy with the fact that whenever I drew a facial feature It would come out wrong and I'd have to re draw it once more. I found it extremely difficult to draw the facial features, purely because all my past experiences with drawing faces has been bad, and this one no different. Also as I'm more use to working with more solid shapes and forms this task was tricky in the sense that I had to let the pencil move more freely around and not restrict it to very basic geometric shapes. This task Overall was quite easy however.

Time management and planning

For the amount of time we had to do this drawing, I don't think that there is any way that I couldn't improve my planning and management. The main reason I didn't finish this within the classroom was that I spent a lot of time thinking how to ensure that this drawing would look as realistic as possible. To achieve this I took it very slowly whilst drawing and not trying to rush, as that would only make things more likely to look messy and unfinished and untidy. To improve my current time skills on drawing photographs I could practice doing times phot drawing challenges at home, to pick up the sense of what is the most important aspects of a picture to draw.