Flow form and force

This 3D animation of the android robot with artificial intelligence really explores the human form. I think it is absolutely beautiful, it looks so realistic with real fluid movements. I love how this not only explores the physicality of the human form but the emotional side as well. this animation feels so real that you really connect with it and empathise with it even though you just watched it be created. They have really got the features and expressions almost spot on. Even down to the skin texture.    

Flow form and force

This video I found on Youtube was a project for someone life drawing class and I think it's really interesting. I think it's important to notice here that we get a great sense of movement and shape and humanity from very little detail. I admire this because I always think it needs to been drawn really accurately so it looks like what it should be but this has proven that it just need to be the right shape and people will instantly recognise it and fill in the blanks.

Flow form and force

This animation shows life drawing in the form of animation. Ryan Woodward has done a lot of life drawing and this is apparent in his work. Although the drawings are simple they are all in perfect proportion with excellent movement. I like the thin lines and the draft lines it makes it more interesting and I also like the block shading. 

Flow form and force

These are the drawings for push and pull. It was hard getting used to drawing for longer than a few seconds, we had time to put in more details. I think this was actually quite a hard task because pretending to put a force on something doesn't actually show where the weight is because if they actually put force on they would probably fall over so to make sure they didn't fall, they moved their weight. I still felt a bit rushed on these though, but I was happier with the result because they actually looked more like what they're supposed to.

This was the first of the long poses task. I enjoyed this one more because we had more time to get the details and make corrections we needed to and actually try and get them accurate. This gives you chance to work on proportions and foreshortening. That's what I found difficult. I am happy with the result of this one I feel the proportions are right, I just can't draw feet as you'll see more of soon.

This is the second drawing, I found it harder to get the foreshortening right here and her head is too big for her body but I think the body is actually quite accurate apart from her feet. They are FAR too small and this makes her proportions look even worse.

I am quite pleased with this drawing, I feel the proportions are much better and even the feet are a little better! I didn't put much face in this one as I thought I might ruin it and I couldn't see it very well anyway. I like the way I shaped her legs and it actually looks like her weight is in the chair. 

I am also quite pleased with this drawing as it actually looks like Anna and the proportions look good I think this task has really helped my life drawing skills. 
I think I would like to do more but maybe have even more time on it and use a range of different pencils and get lots of darks and lights in there but I didn't really have time to go into great detail on these. I definitely think on this that practice makes perfect.

Flow form and force

 The first 4 images are for the rhythm is a dancer task in which we recorded someone moving through a space. The first one we failed a little bit, I ended up drawing a stick person I felt very rushed by the time limit and I drew over the top of each other cause I ran out of space and I just feel it was rubbish. The second 2 images are part of one sequence, I ran out of space so used another peice of paper this time. I think this style worked much better I used the edge of a peice of black chalk and used sort of triangular shapes to make the image more filled out. I think the walk on this one was more interesting and natural too. The first one was very robotic and every move was similar.

 The next one was Mike moving through a space like a gorilla. Again this ended up looking stick like maybe due to my choice of media but I think I was basically drawing the lines of the limbs. I don't like hoe my style changes on this one because sometimes he's more filled out than others. The next one was Anna and she was wearing a skirt at the time and I wanted to capture that but I think I ended up making the drawing more confusing. Again they are too much like stick men/women in their limbs but the body is becoming more filled out. The next this person is walking and gradually falls to the floor. I like how I kept this one going round the page instead of starting a new line I think this gives it a bit more fluidity. Not keen on the drawing style though.

These next drawings are the puppet on a string part. The first I decided to try and draw the movements happening over the top of each other. This worked for the first couple of drawings but after a while it began to get messy and you couldn't see what was happening anymore. I like the idea though but maybe more movement is required meaning having larger gaps between each movement. The next drawing I really like how i started off by drawing the outline of the person but I think I got rushed and forgot where to start and the angle changed and I ended up going back to a stick man for a couple of drawings and then back to how I started. I do find drawing fast really difficult.
The blue one is someone kneeling down then getting back up. I thought I'd try a colour pastel to see if that looked nice. It just made it look messy really. The rest of the drawings I can tell what's happening cause I drew them but not so much on this one.

This is one of my favourite drawings from today. Bex did some sort of yoga poses and I did more of the shape of her rather than all the limbs individually. I am really pleased with how this one turned out and I like the nice thick smooth non scratchy texture I got from using the charcoal in a much smoother way. The last picture is of someone starting off on the ground and getting up and stretching. I feel if I had used the previous technique I could have accentuated the stretch more and made it more human. 

I had fun doing these sketches but I felt under a lot of pressure with the time limit and because I was not happy with a lot of my drawings because they didn't look like much.