That is the nominal title of this because that was what I kept thinking as I drew it. We had to pick a small object (or objects) and make it seem large. That way we examined what makes something appear huge. I figured that foreshortening and a submissive angle on the part of the viewer…

Or tone and scale… This is a cityscape I did as part of an assignment in tone and scale. We were required to do this in a set order and manner (although the subject matter was our choice) we needed a landscape with a fore, middle and back ground and started with a page covered…

I have been working frantically on my coursework. I have quite a bit due in just over a week. I have it almost in hand now but I am stressed still. The last projects were on Tone with a couple of collages. It turns out that collages are not a strong point. And do you…

Long time no post! This is a drawing from my coursework – the project is tone and the exercise was to draw a crumpled piece of paper. The interesting thing here is that it is actually painted in an ink wash which is one of the suggested media. In this subject ‘drawing’ means a variety…

To be honest i am not that happy with this, the assignment was to draw a number of items in an enclosed space on an A4 sized piece of paper. we had to do it in line and communicate the different surfaces using line. I am a psychopathic renderer and I think I have over…

I finally felt up to starting my enormous Drawing courseload today. The planning was done in bed but I had to stand to complete the final drawing. I did ok but I forgot how tiring pen and ink is!! its very different working on an A2 sized pad from working in a visual diary but…

This is a sketch of a pretty Vietnamese girl mom took a photo of in Vietnam. the angle presented some really interesting issues as did the fact that her face was very smooth -lines make features easier to capture – a young face with few lines and shadows are difficult to create character in –…

This is a portrait of a little boy. I thought his little face was beautiful. This was basically to see if I can still do portraits and I think the answer is yes. I like the dark rough background – it contrasts with the softness of his pretty face. I have charcoal in my lungs.…

I am officially over putting the date in the title – what a waste of time! it shows the date on the blog anyway so I am not going to bother anymore. This is a 5 minute sketch of a male nude in charcoal (obviously). I didn’t want to do a blended charcoal image so…

I have finally finished my photography final folio. Kmart’s digital printing service sucks but I have my photos. I also leaned too late that my hoopy printer doesn’t need special cartridges to print really good photographs and I could have saved myself the trouble but oh well. I printed a nice cover for my folio.…