My self directed project started with my research sketchbook, the first few pages of my sketchbook are in multiple blog posts, with trips to galleries and museums. This is the rest of that sketchbook, which is an octopus concertina sketchbook but I have turned them into digital images, collating pages together so it can be seen in digital format.
The first two posts are drawings created from tracings of images in Dance Ink photographs, a book of dance photography with really energetic and interesting poses. I love how movement can be captured in static lines. I found drawing with reference to real poses was good for developing my figures and keeping them interesting. I often draw spontaneously and it is good to practice the proportions of my figures. I also liked how there were some photos of men in skirts and dresses, which was fun to redraw with my androgynous style.
I wanted to go back to the booth museum as I found it very exciting, but will have to wait until I’m back in Brighton for third year, however it is great to know it is there! I enjoyed drawing fonts of independent shops between Gardener and Bond Street. I look forward to being able to draw outside in public spaces again and definitely will take it less for granted.
In our Brighton house, my housemate Twydall makes puppets and it was really fun to draw in his room. The unusual shapes and the caricatures I could create from the puppets were so much fun. I also started listening to Ambivalently Yours’ podcast Rebelliously Tiny. I love the vulnerability a focus on self-help, with importance on taking time for yourself. Her thoughts on ambivalence really resonate with me, and thinking about this idea of opposites and the way society categories everything. Why can we be one thing and still another, it makes so much sense that these things exist together and it is not good to create unnecessary rules that restrict our freedom to follow our passions and interests just because it doesn’t make sense to someone else.
Jake’s Lockdown Life Drawing has helped me draw more figures and to draw from poses I wouldn’t choose myself. It was really fun way to spend my Tuesday evenings and even though I tend not to draw as realistically as he does, I feel it has helped my proportions and allowed me to continue to experiment and be playful within my figure drawing, Some of the drawings are mixed within my sketchbook, while others are on watercolour paper so I can paint them and develop them further.
I like the way my drawings have more of a narrative later in the book but am not such a fan of the absence of colour. I was working on this sketchbook alongside my watercolour paintings, and I plan to use these drawings within ideas for my 360 drawings.
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