A Moth Antennae – Oil Pastels
The subject for my oil pastels piece was a moth of which I concentrated on the left side of the head and the antennae. For me the oil pastels was difficult to get my head around as you had to really press down on the colours to be able to blend well. Usually when I approach art I always start very hesitantly really planning out what I want to do but I really had to push that aside and create form just from the colours which was very difficult. At first what I thought I had produced was just formless colour but I feel after using the wire to etch out a texture helped to give it a better form.
A Beetle- Pencil Study
This particular pencil study was my second attempt and I really wanted to practice tone and shading. This I feel I did quite well on although I feel I could still go darker but as previously mentioned the reason for this is my hesitance to add strong marks on my work. While working on the wings I found it very difficult to keep completely to the subject source as there was a lot of tiny detail which is something I could definitely improve on.
Hummingbird – Watercolour Paints
At first I found watercolours very difficult as the control and flow of it was very different to the other media’s we have used. At first I was very cautious of how the colours bled into each other and found this a bad thing as it meant I lost some definition of shape especially in the tail and wings. However I was quite pleased with the result of this piece as I felt I had blended the colour well despite the fact I was working from an un-recommended small subject source.
Plume Moth Wing – Pencil Study
I chose this particular subject as I thought the wing was really unique and capturing the texture was going to be quite a challenge. In terms of texture I don’t feel I was delicate enough to portray it with the right amount of sensitivity.
Beetle – A1 Charcoal Study
For me the biggest challenge of this study was not so much the media but was the size of the paper which has been the largest we’ve worked in so far. Getting the right perspective became more difficult so I was a lot more reluctant to make a start. However by doing this piece I learnt a lot about capturing tone and the value of smudging and smudging techniques. However the subject I was working from had a lot of dark sections so sometimes I struggled to define each area without them all getting lost in darkness.
Blue Finch – A4 Biro Pen Study
This piece I found extremely difficult at first as it was impossible to erase any mistakes and so the proportions of the wings were off and they seemed heavy and less shaped this made my illustration from the subject matter look like it was from a different perspective. After completing it I felt I wanted to try it again this time keeping in mind the carefulness I needed when drawing as to not make as many mistakes, this made my second attempt look a lot better and more true to the subject matter I was working from. I also found it difficult to create a lot of variants of tone without making it look to heavy to do this I explored other methods of shading like cross hatching.
Peregrine Falcon Head – A4 Biro Pen Study
When approaching this study I had a better understanding of how to work using biro pen understanding that it was most effective when there is a contrast in dark and light shades however I still struggled to keep to the right proportions without making to much of a mistake. I eventually measured the head width by the size of the eye which helped a lot in many respects. I also had a difficulty in creating the texture of the feathers without making my marks look scrappy something I feel over all the Medias I still need to improve on.
Bee and Flower – A3 Stick and Ink Study
One of the main techniques of stick and ink that we needed to use was rather than boldly out line all the shapes and form of our subject matter we needed to watch the flow and consistency of the ink and work into our study using different scratching techniques as my subject matter had a lot of dark sections I found it difficult to pinpoint an appropriate technique to show the reflectiveness of the light on the darker sections. Also I found it difficult to resist the temptation to outline as the ink gave bolder outlines that a pencil.
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