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Unit 2;

Our last 4 illustrators from the past illustrator study! We had to do a two page spread for each, and design our chosen catwalk looks from Milan, Paris, New York and London in these styles. The first one I attempted was London, the style of an old Victorian artist who uses nothing but thin pen lines to create his desired results. This one was fun! But the background took far too much time.

Paris! My favourite out of my works, background based off paris’s catacombs and one of my favourite catwalk looks. The pencil drawing took place over 3 days, and my hand is still recovering from the strain. Not fun. But still my favourite piece! Not lined, to fit the illustrator’s style.

Milan, and my first attempt at stained glass. Painful. I struggled with the illustrator’s style, and used a mix of media’s to try create it. Frustrating, but a learning experience! Also quite rushed, which I want to avoid in the future. This was towards the last few days, when I was focusing marketing above illustration.

New York! To look like a store front for the background, this one was quite fast to complete! Though I feel I completely missed the mark on replicating René’s style in the actual art piece. So much detail to simplify, I ended up rushing to a degree, and ultimately quite disappointed when I think of how it could of been improved.

Given a head out with 3 heads facing different ways, we were tasked to draw them on a larger scale. This took a lot of work, and overall was a struggle but came out quite well, all aside. For digital, we were also tasked on replicating them online and colouring them.

I could live without touching these again, but overall the experience was good! But god, it also sucked ahaha.

For media experimentation, different media’s were placed around on separate tables. Being given handouts of what to do in what media’s, we had to do two of each- one the first time, and a hopefully improved one the second- Bonus one mixed media!

Watercolour, my first came out far better but faces have never been my strong point when it comes to larger scale, non-stylised. Especially with watercolour.

Pastel! God, I hate this media with a passion. Nothing works well, it gets everywhere and blending it is so difficult, I wanted to scream- I haven’t even had time to sort any hair spray to set them. Absolute pain.

Pencil isn’t too bad, but gives me bad cramps in my hands that can last for days. These were much more relaxing than some others, but also much more time consuming. I do like how they came out though! The first one I slipped up when lining, thus the dark neck.

Ink was very enjoyable, it flowed well and came out better than I expected, especially for a first attempt with the media.

I believe our first assigned homework throughout the unit! Given up to 3 figures, we replicated them on a larger scale. I only managed one, and it was enjoyable to do, I’ve really started to enjoy drawing figures from reference and adore the long limbed style. Hope the decoration wasn’t overboard! Fleshed it out with some skin tone and blush around joints like it’s a doll, the plants are fun to decorate with too.

Sized up and done in pencil, we covered colour theory! The three main we covered was Monochromatic, where you use different shades of the same colour; Complimentary, opposing colours in the wheel that, as the name implies, complements the others well, and finally Analogous! Using colours next to each other on the wheel for the desired match.

I got to experiment a little with style in the faces (before being asked to tone it down whoops-) and overall while pencil kills my hands, it was another thing I enjoyed making. It took time though, as pencil tends to…

We also did a digital version through illustrator! I really struggled with this, as the computer doesn’t like me and I’m quite bad at remembering tools and processes with Adobe software. Here is the overall result !

S curve! Given a handout, we had to replicate it on a larger scale! This one was more frustrating Ngl, getting the curvy hips just didn’t work out but I’m proud of how it came out! At the end of the day, it’s a normal-ish body and somewhat presentable? I’d like to believe if I had to redo it now at the end of unit 1, I could manage something better.

9 head doubled!! This one was fun, and while I probably won’t use the 9 head technique again, it is a favoured one. Designing some of these pages was frustrating, but I tried to have as much fun as I could with watercolour. :D

A more detailed, and much larger model to double! God, this one was frustrating aha. If I had the time and patience, I would of redone it- but ignoring the wide body, short arms and, Well.. hands on general- it isn’t too bad, right? :)

Given a basic model, we were asked to redraw it using gridding then to double the legs. It wasn’t too challenging, but I have a track record of mixing up numbers- luckily after a few retries I managed to get it down.