Lesson 1- Week Beginning 11th October 2021

Lesson 1- Tasks

-Image creation I started with taking some photos of my flatmate then printing them out

-I then completed task 1 and wrote down what I could see in the photo and sketched what I had written from. I was able to include all the features I needed t, to show the face and included detail lines, however these where very dark and aged my model drastically. It was also a very small sketch that looks slanted and her chin cuts straight into her neck. However, the nose does look like that of the photo connecting to the eyes but does stop too high for the mouth, but it does fit the width of her face. The improvements I want to make from this sketch is to round her face more, to lighten up on shading and lines within sketching and to try to have more depth and texture to her hair.

-Task 2 was meant to be many quick sketches that didn’t take then pen off the page as much and was not meant to have any erasing so that Jackie could see how our work had progressed. Here I decided to do many small quick sketches of facial features and creating the face by starting with different features. I started my sketching the hair on the head which I thought looked very good as I captured a lot of the frizz and I felt that around the neck there was texture to show the depth of it. I then practiced sketching the eyes which I still had issues with being wonky and that was an improvement I wrote upon. I improved on this in my next sketch. I also attempted to sketch a nose but that was an issue I still stretched with. Out of the Three face sketches, I felt like the one where I started with the nose looked the best, there was still too much space between the bottom of the nose and the mouth, but this nose sat daintily without being too big or crooked. Next time I’d make a double spread of these sketches to make them bigger and better.

-Task 3 was my favourite sketch. I focused a lot on the improvements I had written about previously and to try and centre the eyes I drew lines across the face and vertically. This meant the eyes sat directly in the middle and I feel look a lot more even. The improvement for the eyes this time is to add detail to the pupil which I will research over the next few weeks while I continue to sketch. The nose and mouth also now sit a good distance apart, but the nose is still crooked, however looking at the picture upside down I now can see it’s more of an arrow shape so next time I sketch I will use common shapes I know as a base outline and then curse and sculpt them to look like to the feature it must be. The line work is also a lot lighter and doesn’t age her drastically. The eyebrows and hair need improvement here with the eyebrows looking incredibly off so next time I would be more likely to sketch them with an outline then create hair detail once the shape is correct. The hair wasn’t something I was focusing on as much as this sketch, but I believe I get the frizzy wisps that are leaving the head, however the actual hair itself is not detailed or textured.