Second life drawing session: Interior.

In the fourth week of Processes and Production, we were tasked with more illustrations, this time from the perspective of the interior of our creative arts building.

This visualising task contained a couple of the same elements as last time, and also allowed for the same scope of materials, but also placed an emphasis on views from windows and line-drawings with fine liners.

People and Places

This piece was going amazingly well. Emphasis on the was. I felt like I had a really good sense of proportion and perspective, and the lines where detailed but not overly god awful or too messy. Then I needed to draw the face. The first line I made for the jawline was wonky, a bad start to what would rapidly become a downward spiral of uncorrectable mistakes...

It wasn't that bad, and I certainly still think highly of the rest of the piece. And maybe the fact being all janky and wrong just, adds character that doing it well just wouldn't have added.

With my second person illustration I had learned from my previous mistake and decided to change tactics. Instead of drawing a constantly moving subject, I took a photo and worked from that, and made sure that the face was at least partially obscured by something so I wouldn't need to draw it; in this case, her hand.
This illustration was made with sightly more consideration to my studio brief, starting the sketch with the shoes and then working my way up to the rest of the subject. In this way the illustration was less focused on the person, but more the individual constructs that made them up; such as the shoes, legs, body and head.
Overall, I believe this to be an improvement over the other illustrative investigation

These illustrations were made rapidly, using a selection of different thickness fine-liners and parallel lines to construct these illustrations.
These illustrations, as mentioned previously, were very quick and, as such, I feel like they could have been dramatically improved, using perspective lines more accurately, as not to get this ever-so-slightly distorted look, that takes away from the realism and authenticities of the drawings, and ultimately makes them fail.

Line drawing studies, featuring perspective :

This is probably, in my opinion, my favourite illustration, in terms of how well it's composed and it's accuracy of what I was trying to capture.
It's relatively simple; just a simple perspective drawing of the hallway between the CA2/002 and CA2/004 (which, to 99% of the people reading this.... probably already know that because, it's not exactly abstract), trying to capture the change in scale as the hallway progressed.
The alignment is a little off, and the lines are undefined in places, but overall I like this piece the most, due to it's authentic shading, scale and perspective.

This perspective piece is a little abstract, and I'm not sure how I feel about it...
Simply, it's the view of the deli counter (the art-isan, for those less informed, or who want to hear a pun) from the balcony two floors up. There isn't much to say about it. I'm sure if you squint... tilt your head a little, you'll see it (and look stupid whilst doing it but, I'm not one to judge). It was, at least, an interesting exercise at illustrating a subject from an angle and perspective i'm not familiar with.
(it also, yet again, highlights how much I'd benefit from perspective lines.

views from windows:

 

This illustration was an attempt to do something different. I understood that, when given the task to 'draw the view from a window', it was heavily implied I draw the outside from the inside.

But, it was never actually stated I had to do that.

So here's a small, almost thumbnail sized illustration of a window into a room that had hot chocolate and tea stacked by the window, and a magazine on the table.

I don't know what room that is, but I think I want to be in it.

This final illustration, I begrudgingly did what I wasn't explicitly told but actually I was really so be quiet. (it wasn't begrudging I just figured that'd be more entertaining.)

This is an illustration of the south facing window, which is essentially the entire bottom side of the creative arts building. This window is broken up into a 3x3 grid of windows, and decided that, rather than draw them all as a single frame (like a normal person), I'd split them up into their own section and focus exclusively on what I saw in each 'frame', regardless of the overall, joined together picture.
The result was a rather visually interesting, distorted and almost 'broken' image of the outside world, that I personally am very proud of.