The physical studio this week revolved around location drawing. Somehow I found this session very reflective because we began to understand how to plan and experiment hands on to paper. We had to compose what we were drawing and consider each element including the typography.
After getting into groups, we were associated with a place so my group was working on the Huddersfield market. I volunteered to draw the sign post at the market and I was considering how to arrange it in my drawing. I thought of scale and perspective but I went straight for the eye-level as my partner was drawing in scale. So I drawn the pole the first time considering all the closer details but I managed to mess up the scale when it came to writing out the full text. From the initial drawing, I drawn the pole again this time planning it accordingly and managed to get it right. I also thought of drawing out the text with the same font. I was not confident at drawing because I haven't drawn since I was in school so it felt like a challenge when others were more confident but I didn't let that over ride me and gave it a shot. I was surprised to get public people in Huddersfield come up to me and give me positive feedback on my sketches which gave me a boost of confidence. To be self reflective, I believe I can do better using more art equipment because all I've used was a cheap pencil and maybe I could discover further using a sketching pencil, colours and see how it can improve my drawings.
