Reflection Before I begin the work for this part, I am going to go back and take a reflective look over the work I produced in the four...

Before I begin reflecting on the work I’ve produced for this assignment, I want to spend a moment talking about my personal experiences....

Understanding what an image is trying to say is a lifetimes work. As artists we imbue our work with our own personal baggage, our...

Exercise 1 - Facial Features When considering the task of drawing people, it can’t be understated how important the head is. For most, if...

Exercise 1 - Single Moving Figure How to represent movement is an interesting prospect, by definition drawings are static. That much is...

Exercise 1 - The Structure of the Human Body Now in complete contrast to some of the previous exercises I tackled this one with relish....

Exercise 1 - Basic Shapes Having read this exercise, I struggled to come up with a satisfactory way of demonstrating on paper what the...

Exercise 1 - Quick Studies As mentioned in an earlier blog finding a model to do this kind of exercise was going to be tricky. Luckily...

Upon initially receiving the course materials all those many months ago, the first thing I did was to have a good flick through, to see...

From the moment I did the 360 degree study exercise, I knew what I want to draw for this assignment. I would take that idea and expand on...

Exercise 3 - A limited Palette Study Although the exercise says to develop one of the sketches from the previous exercise, because I’d...

During this exercise I wanted to produce work with a bit more imagination than in previous exercises. I have strived up until now too, as...

So we move from the country back into the town, time to get urban. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I really wish I’d hit this...

Having never studied art academically beyond GCSE, perspective is something I have muddled through, rather than ever really studying and...

As I’ve mentioned in previous logs, I tend to rely on photographic reference more than I should. For this exercise I was determined to...

Slade educated John Virtue, is an English contemporary landscape artist. He works solely in monochrome, balancing on the fence between...

After reading the brief for this exercise, I felt it was time to take stock of the course so far and consider where I am as an artist....

Exercise 2 - Sketchbook Walk The task at hand in this exercise was to produce a number of drawing whilst out in the environment. Taking a...

Living in the North of England, I was never going to struggle for reference material for this exercise. The weather changes frequently...

With the solo tree studied, it was time to tackle more of our leafy friends. As with the previous exercise, I took inspiration for the...