week eight drawing print blocks

These week was to get the basic idea of lettering on objects and fonts.

I am one that has rarely done illustrations basically based on text, So this will be a good exercise for me to practice so that I get how text works in illustrations and how text works in a 3D concept.   

 

Material: Fine liner with water

Materials: Fine liner with water and drawing crayons

Material: Fine liner with water

Thumbnails of possible sketch, Material: Pencil

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Sketch from thumbnails, Material: Pencil

With these sketches it was a task that I found a bit difficult because I had to do a task that I was not familiar with. But this did not stop me from trying. With my drawing materials I have got uses and favourite using fine liner with water because it easy to produce drawings and colouring the drawing. But I though to myself I need try something like drawing crayons which is material that I have used before but I am not as comfortable with as much as fine liners. But I tried it anyway and I did find it as a good drawings material because it easy to control the level of colouring and shading with how hard I press down on the pencil. But my only regret is that I used watercolour paper which wasn't my best choice because of it bumps texture. So next time uses a matter that is multi purpose or plain paper.  Even though I am happy with the outcome I still need to practice with this material in later drawing tasks.  With the fine liner drawings I am happy that I have taken my own advice about using fine liner with water because it quick and easy material to use and I would like to use this when creating most of my sketchbook stuff or creating notes.

The next task I was given was to create rough thumbnails of what I was planning out to do with my observational drawing. At first I was not sure about this because I though in way that you only really use that on creating storyboards and creative illustrations. But when I actually did it turned out that it actual quite a good of planning out what works best. The reasons why are that the thumbnails can be quick themselves and it gives the basic idea of what I might what to do with the object and what angle I want to do. After decide on what angle I did the object, I convinced that I should use this technique from now on so when I am planning out sketches I get the basic outline, outcome and then decide on what the best route to take. With the overall outcome I wanted to just capture the basic outline of the shape which was interesting do from that angle. Overall I am okay with the outcome because I got my aim of the basic outline but I think next use a black pen, so that I get a bold outcome and I should use this with the thumbnails as well.

Overall this task has open my eyes with what I should do before I create my observational drawings.