Observational Drawings

Then I drew someone else plant. These were fast and fun aloe vera plant illustrations. I added loose squiggles as the bumps and the shapes seemed quite stylised. I also found the angle from onto interesting, more like a pattern. Trying a new style I put my ink pen down and looses painted some close ups of the mint leaves. These focused on tone of the different parts of the leaf in a much looser way.

Why do we value observational drawing?

It is a skill which allows flexibility to respond to the stimulus presented. Here there is more room for interpretation rather than copying a 2D image. Observational drawing allows you to learn how to observe 3D and make your own decisions on representing the form and presenting it in the style you want.

Furthermore we did observational drawings from a potted plant (mint). Here I used a nabbed ink pen initially creating thin lines before trying a thicker nib. I feel these illustrations captured the character of my mint plant and are rather playful-The mint plant seems lively and free spirited. I like the difference of the loose painted ink and the thinner outlines. I think that because the perspective of the pot isn't correct it makes the plant seem lively.

Here our task was to view a photo then remember it and recreate the image. Through my work it is clear that competence increased the more times I studied the original image. I chose to draw the puffer jacket using scratchy lines however it was interesting to see that others chose to use lines and block colours to represent the "puffs". This was a study in monochrome which allowed us to focus on tone and line.