For this exercise we were asked to use four drawing tools and make four distinct grades of tone using criss-crossing lines, hatching and spots with a simple object as the subject to experiment these techniques on. The wording on this exercise felt open to interpretation as to how you present the work and so I chose to draw my object (one of my daughter Ottilie’s blocks) very simply in each different medium with another drawing involving a mix of mediums and styles to look both at how different mediums compare and how different combinations of styles could be used together.
Because of my choice of object and the way I went about this exercise the drawings ended up more like simplified illustrations – I’m not sure if this was the intention but I did really enjoy the opportunity to draw in a different style and to think about how pattern might be incorporated into further work. The combination of styles worked better than I had envisaged and I’d definitely like to follow that up in another work at some point.
The second part of the exercise was to place a group of simple objects and do a very loose drawing and then work fast using hatching to give tonal shadows and make the sketches more believable as objects. I did as instructed but I think after the slower more deliberate mark making of the first part of the exercise I lost my flow for hatching and the resulting image doesn’t do anything for me as a drawing, though it did at least go to show how quickly you can add three dimensionality to a drawing.
Flora OCA drawing 1 