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Amanda, 19
Studying Media & Communication
Singapore Polytechnic
A blog created for Design&Illustration module
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Monday, October 26, 2009, 12:57 AM
Tribal rocks! stone.
Some background information about my history with drawing before I start proper!I've loved drawing since I was hmmm... Primary 1?! YES. That's how young I was! I love doodling nonsense and drawing female characters I think, it was particularly fun to draw different hairstyles and outfits for the fictional characters I'd imagined and... it relieves stress. Anyway, I think what you draw changes along with you as you age too. I no longer draw these imaginary female characters as much as I did when I was younger. Instead, I like drawing houses and buildings now! But of course it isn't those 3D or complicating architecture stuff! (:
So thus began the first lesson of my semester for an elective module called Design & Illustration. This module is taught by Ms Nga which is not much of a surprise because she was the one who taught us in year 1 for an art module as well.
The first lesson started with a bang! We were all given a small piece of cardboard paper. We were asked not to look at it but we did anyway. It was sort of an icebreaker game for the class because all of us come from different classes.
It was a cartoon dog on the paper for me. Feeling all mystified by it, Miss Nga explained what we needed to do. We later got into tribes with people who had the same animals on their small paper. My tribe members were Sharon and Josiah!
We were all asked to sketch the cartoon dog as shown below and to later critic each others' drawings and improvise on it afterwhich.
There were a few points noted when drawing this seemingly cute and harmless dog.1st point noted: A dog's body is really circular.
2nd point noted: I couldn't draw circles really well.
~~~Which leads to my first drawing!
1st Drawing
If you can observe carefully, my first drawing (above) differs so much from the original one! I actually thought it was quite close, but I realize how wrong I was at the end of the day. :( The paws were supposed to be in the shape of a bun. Thanks to Ms Nga, Sharon and Josiah; I saw the flaws in my drawing which included the feets, mouth and ears! There's so many! So it was time for all of us to proceed on to the second drawing - which was supposed to look better and closer to the original drawing.2nd Drawing
I don't know if it's just me or something, but I kind of feel that the dog looks a bit anaeroxic in this one. Actually Sharon and I discussed about it and wisened up after the first drawing. We decided to draw the dog in a smaller size to save our efforts. However, I think there's no difference in the amount of tedious effort being put in. Anyway, this time we criticize each others' works again and I realized it's time to draw a better circular body!3rd & Final drawing!
I guess I can't say my final drawing is really close to the original one, but comparing it to the first and second, I must say this is definitely the best one.Hence, a true learning point from the first lesson of DI is that every single detail counts. The shape, lines, angles, shading (and more) are necessary stuff to take note of if one wants to get a decent or even good piece of drawing done!
We're also supposed to design our sketchbook. This is what mine looks like now. I shall post my designed sketchbook at my last entry in this blog to see the changes made!Good bye!