The Egg Drop

Objective: to protect an egg that would be dropped from a height using only an A1 piece of paper, approx 4feet of cellotape and string. We came up with 3 ideas and chose the one we'd think would be more successful which was the paper aeroplane idea.

As you can see by the last picture our egg survived the task.

3D

This is my shoe made out of wire. This was my first time working with this media and i did find it difficult tightening the smaller knotts and keeping the overall shape clean so it was recogniseable but in the end i liked how messy it looked and how it looked like a blind conteour or continuous line drawing as it made it look more interesting.

Monoprints and Collographs

For my prints i experimented using black paper as a background and rubbing over textured fabrics to create different effexts. I also made stencils of my tattoo that is on my hand and blotted ink over them to build up on different effects.

I also had access to newspapers and found this interesting picture and mixed some inks and made some prints on it to see what the effect would be.

Monoprints and Collographs

From my hand drawings i chose one that i found to have particulally interesting lines as i thought it would translate well into a collograph. I used a foam like material and traced my hand drawing onto it and cut it out, then stuck it onto thick card. I also worked into the foam with a biro pen to make it more detailed.

This was one of my samples using my collograph. I was happy with the result of the prints as they are really detailed so i then went on to experiment with different colours, backgrounds and stencils to build up patterns and textures.

Monoprints and Collographs

Before i started out monoprints and collographs i completed a series of observational drawings of my own hands using tecniques such as blind conteour and contiuous lines and drawing using my left hand and using materials like ink and sticks, feathers, cotton buds and pencil.

Line into stitch. Wallpaper Sample

For this sample I blind conteoured a screwdriver i'd previously drawn onto wallpaper and sewed over it using a round footer used for embroidery on the sew machine. This enabled me to sew round the outline without stopping and it was also easier to create curved lines.

Line into stitch. Applique.

For my next piece I was able to use a sewing machine and other fabrics and other add-ons like buttons and beads. I chose to do the continuous line, blind conteour drawing of my iPod to do this.

This was slightly more successful than my previous sample as i am more comfortable using a sew machine than handstitching. My original iPod is black so i chose to use these colours to give it a negative effect.

Line into stitch. Sample.

Using out line drawings I had to then translate them lines into stitch. My first sample was a handstitch of one of our observation line drawings.

I chose to do the car drawing as i thought it would be an interesting challenge. It wasn't as successful as i had hoped but it was my first attempt at hand stitching a drawing.

Line into stitch.

To start I completed a series of line drawings of random objects using materials such as; compressed/willow charcoal, pencil, graphite and ink.

Some of our line drawings had to be drawn without looking at the page or without taking the pen of the page (Continuous lines and blind conteour)

Drawing into Abstraction.

I went to the Anglican Cathedral to do a series of drawings and 5 were to be contrasting drawings that show shadows and stong contrasts between light and dark so i drawed particulaly shadowed corridors within the Cathedral. I also did 5 left handed drawings, 5 continuous line drawings and 5 blind conteour drawings. Using these I used a viewfinder to outline small sections of our drawing to then create 4 A5 size abstractions.

I was able to use any colours/materials I wanted for these abstractions. I chose blues and greens because they are so different from the usual colours you would see in a cathedral like browns and wood/stone colours. I used watercolours as they wouldnt give my drawings the usual cathedral textures like wood and stone and i wanted my drawing to have an opposite effect with them being abstractions and hardly noticeable parts of a cathedral. I wanted to make some of my lines bolder than others so i went over them in black charcoal co i could smudge them so they weren't too bold against the watercolours. I found my small scale abstractions to be more successful than my A1 version.

This is my A1 version of one of my abstractions with another abstraction over it. I used charcoal more in this version with watercolour over it to create a layered effect.

Drawing with meaning.

Drawing with meaning was basically making something like a drawing or a sculpture using relevant materials such as a coffee cup out of coffee. I used random materials that I could find in my household that can be used to draw with or draw on. I had brought cd's and instantly thought of breaking them up or cutting them into shapes to do a portrait of a music legend.

At first i just experimented with my cd's to see how effective they would be and to see how they would be to work with. Then i created a small sample of what i was going to do on a larger scale.



This was my larger scale Jimi Hendrix Portrait out of cut up cd's. I think it was quite successful and i was really pleased with the effect the cd's. I would like to, in the future, do a set of music legends portraits using other materials such as tape cassettes or vinyls as a development of this.

This was my second idea of drawing with meaning which has a deeper meaning than my first piece. This is a portrait of Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd and lead singer and guitarist for their first album Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Syd Barrett unfortunatly took too many drugs as Pink Floyd got more famous which eventually made him insane. When he left Pink Floyd David Gilmour and Roger Waters wrote a song about Barrett called Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I used guitar tabs from the song Shine On You Carzy Diamond to create my drawing as i thought it wouldnt be the same if i used any Pink Floyd song. I felt this drawing was particulaly successful as its simplicity is really effective.

Drawing with chance.

Drawing with chance was ultimatly finding a way to draw without using a pencil and paper which we would normally associate with drawing. This was a new tecnique for me and showed me a new way to approach drawing and also gave me a new and different concept of what drawing is.

This was my first attempt at drawing with chance. For this piece i used red and black ink and to draw with i used my necklace that i made of can pull offs. I dipped this into the ink and just the the necklace sway round in a circle. I left it up to chance when directing the necklace letting it sway freely. After i had done the red ink i stood the paper up while the ink was still wet as i though the dripping would create interesting patterns. Then after i applied the black ink i blew the ink inwards which created a really effective pattern.

My main idea for drawing with chance was to use static television images and to go over the pixels with coloured pencils as the patterns created were completely chance as know one controls the way the pixels go. I mounted them on paper in sort of a film strip and then used colours such as red, green and blue to draw around pixels. After this i used 2 of the images that were different kinds of static and went over the patterns on assitate which wasn't as successful.

This was my final largescale illustration of The Bell Jar.

 I wanted to play around with shadows and light because i wanted to keep the detail in the back minimal. I thought about the moon shining through the window and how that would illuminate the front of Esther (The woman in the picture) and i wanted to create the effect that she was standing in a dark room as throughout the book there is lots of dark smokey imagery and depression is a main theme in the book. In this particular scene Esther is giving her new expensive clothes to the wind which carries them off into the New York skyline. This is a turning point in the book as it is the first sign of madness and depression. I chose to use charcoal as it is good at producing smokey effects and shadows which are things i really wanted to show in my illustration.

This is my planning in my sketchbook for my largescale illustration of The Bell Jar.

These are the illustrations i produced in the summer holidays.

The passages i used to draw these particular images are written as annotations.

I chose Sylvia Plath's book The Bell Jar because i had already previously read it and was familiar with it which meant i already had images in my head of what i expected things to look like. We were to choose 4 scenes from the book and illustrate them in our sketchbook. I had already produced 2 other illustrations of scenes i thought to contain alot of imagery. I then produced a larger scale of the drawing we thought showed the story of the book more and what we thought would be a successful drawing.

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