Spaces and Places

 The first place I drew was the town hall. I chose this because it is an interesting building in a nice location with lots of space around it. I used a variation of media including charcoal, graphite stick,pencil and fine-liner.  I like the graphite and charcoal ones best. Mike said the lines are very sketchy (that's my drawing style he didn't say we had to draw it a specific way) and that I need to use a 

 sharper pencil, which is a valid point that I will take into consideration next time.

I chose to draw my bedroom next because this would give me chance
 to relax while I draw and 

 use a much wider range of media because I have it readily available and can take as much time as I like on it. I am actually really happy with how these drawings turned out.
 I used media such as pro-

marker, pencil, watercolour, graphite stick and fine liner. I enjoyed trying to get perspectives right from different angles.

 I also chose to draw the Merrion centre because although I've been in there before it's usually just to Morrisons and I've never really paid any attention to it, just walked through. There are some interesting angles in the architecture but apart from that it's a pretty boring building with hardly any colour (hence the lack 
 of colour used and not a very 

inspirational place to draw. Not to mention the off putting people walking past you. I have to say I didn't like this project. I don't enjoy drawing in public.

Visual language

Dog project

So this is the story I came up with. Because I designed the poodle all stuck up I thought she probably knows how pretty she is and thinks everyone is looking at her so in this she is walking through the park when she passes two dogs who she thinks are staring at her, she winks and they come running toward her, but then they run past her and she is confused. It turns out there was a ball being thrown near her and that's what they were looking at. So she ends up walking off in a huff! I thought it was pretty funny. I really like it! If I animated it I would do it in slow motion so you would see what is going on and it doesn't all happen too fast. 

This is my original thinking and first draft of my story board.

Visual language

Dog project

The word I was given for this project was 'Dog'. This was my first set of 12 drawings out of 32. At this point all I could think about was a fluffy dog! and a couple of other things like 'dog house' 'dog bowl' 'dog bone' 'balloon dog' 'hot dog' 'dog poo' 'dog pile', but they didn't really seem like things I could do a story with.



This is the rest of the 32 images. I started getting more ideas like 'scurvy dog' 'doggy paddle' 'dog collar' 'dog and bone' 'dogma' 'dog rose' 'dog leg' 'dog fish'. But again it was very difficult to think of a story to do with any of these I wasn't particularly inspired. The only one I thought of a story for was the posh poodle because it actually had character. So I chose that. I was originally going to do how dogs and owners look alike but mike said just concentrate on the dog.

We then had to do 8 images on our chosen image in different angles and using different mediums. I quite like this series of images. I like the shadows on the black and white pen one and I also quite like the newspaper one.