Actually I wanted to take the drawing workshop first then this as I think drafting skills are more crucial for me, however it was already full when I went to sign up. Therefore I have to choose this workshop first.
In the first week we went to Sydney Opera House to draw, obviously, the Opera House. The major idea is to discover abstraction and fluidity in the drawings. We produced two drawings on that day. The first was simply an abstract drawing from a still angle of the Opera House.
Then we moved on to draw one side of the Opera House, where the most interesting thing is that we have to move about 10 meters away from the original place we were drawing, and draw the view you see on the same sheet of paper. I first it is confusing to draw two different angles on the same sheet of paper, but after I started to draw more, a sense of transparency was developed when the drawings are overlapped, and movement can be seen.
The movement is clearly shown on the different shades of the curves on the top right corner, which is where the roof of Opera House moves away when I walk further out.
After lesson, we were told to form in groups of four and started our collaboration drawings. This first one is a drawing of an architectural space, which was from a description of one of my group members.
In the second class, we started to draw still life drawings. But there’s something different from normal still life drawing, where the tutors will come once a while and rearrange the objects on the table. This again helped us to develop our observation skills, as well as showing movement and transparency in the drawing. However, I find this drawing to be very difficult as only our group have to draw soft objects such as cloth and plastic wrap. It makes it hard to draw, and it even harder when the objects are rearranged, which makes the drawing confusing.
This is the close up view of the drawing. You can see the cloth in the middle is quite messy, as it went through a few rearrangements.
The other drawing produced on that day was a drawing of the cityscape through the window of Red Center. I chose the sports ground outside Red Center, because when I looked at it, I saw people running and its in the late afternoon, where the shadows projected becomes very long and I think that is interesting. After that, we enlarged a part of the drawing into a large scale, which shows the transparency through the background. I chose the bench that’s on the pathway beside the sports ground. Be cause the bench is dark in colour, I had to add more shadows in the background to obtain transparency.
This is the second home collaboration project done. It was actually based on a continuous drawing we did from our group. We first take a corner of a drawing from one of the teammates, then use that part to create another A2 drawing and then send a corner of mine to another person.
So here’s my part of the drawing, in original:
After all of us has finished the drawing, we were asked, on the third class, to produce another drawing that combines all of our drawings into a single drawing(which is the image on top). Luckily all of our drawings have a common in them: we all have a lot of curves. This helped a lot when joining all our drawings together.
We decided to arrange our drawings along a curved line, which matches with the overall theme of our drawings. We also leave some white spaces on the drawing, which could help focused on the line as well.
This is the other collaboration project we’ve done. It is a drawing of a wall in the room. However, our group decided to draw a pillar that is in the center of the room, because we think that it would be interesting if we draw from different points of view on the same pillar, a 360 degree view could be seen. Therefore we started drawing the pillar from different angles, then ripped our drawings and pasted them together into a new one. It went out well as we could talk to each other and confirm the process of work, where in the first one we don’t know what the purpose of the drawing so we produced quite different drawings.
These two collaboration projects has helped my to gain more confidence in communicating in English, as it is not my first language. It also helped me(and my group members) to think in a more creative way, as it is not an easy task to find ways to join four different drawings into one, where the second one is easier than the first one as we have to aim on a theme of the drawing and we can communicate while we are drawing in class.
At last, we have to group all of our drawings into a folio, which is in a format of a concertina style. I immediately put the still life drawing in the middle, as it was the longest one and the one I like most so I want it to be the center of attention. The two Opera House drawings is put on top of the drawings as they are the two where I think has conceived most in the aim of this workshop, which is abstract and fluidity.
The last thing I want to talk about is a continuous work through the whole workshop, which is a A4 sketch of my home, twice a day. I think this is the greatest part of work in the whole workshop, as I was quite a lazy person, but I like drawing. I had another sketchbook which I told myself to draw a picture once a day, but in the end it only lasted for a couple of weeks. This project has surely pushed my to have a continuous work of drawing a space, which has helped me develop a better drawing skill. However, I found it sometimes difficult to draw the same place in a different shade in only black and white, which usually gives out similar drawings in the first few days, but it gets better when I got used to drawing the space.
Here are some drawings that I like better:
After this workshop, I think I gained more knowledge into observing buildings and objects in a more different way. I can now see the difference of a building while moving along and away from it.
However, I didn’t really get the grasp of drawing in an abstract way, because I am more used to drawing objects precise, with the shadowing and outline correct. I sure did learnt about drawing in a motion way, but it was only the outcome not satisfying.
Moreover, I think the workshop has helped me with the third workshop(Drawing workshop) as well, because the shadows and depth of rendering is also needed in that workshop as well, and I think it makes it easier to work through the workshop.
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