At my first lecture today, I was introduced to my module and
what it entails. I found the details of the module to be very interesting as
well as very exciting. I hope that this module will help me develop my skills
in drawing and any further new skills. After the introduction, we paired up
together and this gave me a chance to meet the people on my course. After
drawing portraits of each other, this allowed me to test my skills of
observational drawing. Looking at everyone else’s work made me feel slightly
anxious as I felt that I wouldn’t be as good as everyone else. However, I did
enjoy being able to experiment with tonal work. In addition to this, we were
given multiple drawing tasks; drawing semi-blind, drawing under quick time etc. The part where we had to draw under two minutes was quite pressurizing as I
couldn’t put in all the detail on the face that I wanted to. I could see a lot
of errors in my drawings such as the shaping of the face and eyes as well as
the shading that goes into it. This could be something that I can improve on in
the future to make my observational drawing much sharper and accurate.
