Week one: During this rotation, we focused heavily on different compositions within film making and different angle shots. One of the first few activities we were given was to a brief and draw a quick image inspired by it.
The prompt i chose was ‘Knocking down an antique vase’. I really liked the idea of how cats are known culprits of knocking down random objects. Both images are of the same scene however they’re both drawn from different perspectives as I wanted to experiment with different shots and compositions. I think that both sketches turned out well and managed to portray what was happening in the image.
We then had to create an observational sketch of our whole surrounding, adding more paper onto the ones we were using as we expanding the drawing. I forgot to take pictures of my work unfortunately however, I remember it being difficult as people and objects were constantly moving. It was also difficult to capture the perspective of different objects which made some objects look bigger than others when they should be smaller.
Week 2: For this week, we went to Southbank and the Tate gallery to do some observational drawing of different people around us. At first, I found this difficult but the more I drew, I became more comfortable/ confident in drawing strangers. It also helped that since people were constantly walking and moving, I had to remember not to go into too much detail and make quick sketches as well which meant I didn’t have time to focus on what I see was ‘wrong’ with my sketches. Here are some of the sketches from the lesson:
Using the observational drawings, We then had to make a three panel story with a beginning, middle and end. I found this a little difficult as I didn’t know how to portray a full story in three panels. I chose to use the man taking a picture as my character in my story where he sees something strange/ beautiful and decides to take a picture of it.
