Year 2 - Week 16 - February 13th - 17th

So this week we basically got a choice between Norse Mythology or 1960’s Paris. To be honest they both sound as dull and boring as each other, though I edge more towards 1960’s Paris. The reason for this choice is because in the Viking era, there aren’t many buildings etc and I love to draw building as it allows me to experiment with perspective etc, where as the streets of Paris seem to appeal more to me. There’s no doubt I like environments more so it was always going to be an environment for me.

I believe the film Angel-A was set in Paris, which is what we watched last year. It instantly became one of my favourite films. It’s all in greyscale, which I think is how I’m going to produce my final. It’s a two week project so basically it’s the researching and ideas week, that film is definitely my inspiration for picking Paris over Vikings. Using grey scale in Photoshop is surprisingly something I haven’t done yet so possibly I’m going with that. It’ll test us to try and capture the culture of Paris, when I think of Paris I immediately think of black and white, fashion, coffee shops, Art, Eiffel tower etc.

I want to take an opportunity to talk about my personal work to. I’ve been continuously drawing still life all year looking for new stuff to draw constantly to, but I end up drawing some of the same stuff. I’ve already explained about it a while back, I’m trying to experiment more with colour and composition, I’ve practically mastered perspective in which I try to draw things without it. It’s all designed to produce work faster and as we’ve been looking at things in life drawing working out very fast if an image essentially works or not. I tend to draw a small prep sketch first then attempt at a fully rendered version. 

I’ve gotten into contour drawings to and looking at the outline of shapes. By looking at shapes I can now instantly image how I would model them in 3DS Max. It’s helped with geometry, colour theory such as tones, perspective and just generally speeding up. I like blind contour drawings, but sometimes I find that I need to keep looking back at the paper cause I’m trying to concentrate too much and I go wrong?