Archyways!

ARCHWAYS! They're here, there and everywhere. Sometimes you don't notice them, sometimes you do?! They're like ninjas and you walk through them without realizing and they’re laughing at your stupidity! Okay that's a load of rubbish! What I'm trying to get is my reflection on our 2^nd week project for visual production on archways! Yes archways! Sometimes I call them archyways! Why not! You also meet cats while at the archway! Or you find people start filming you while your working! Yes I am being totally serious!


Any who’s! Where was I... Ah yes, reflection on the archway project. So in the 2^nd week of starting Uni after having churned out the canal project, we then run into the next one! So this project was the same as the canal. Supposedly! So it has a 1pt perspective, vanishing point, horizon line, you know the normal things that perspective includes! But this was SO different, that I had no idea what I was doing! I sat there like a lemon just chilling in the cold with a pencil in hand and a blank sketch book. It was clearly going well! I was quite ill as well while we started this project. I managed quite well to get into class, to try and listen to Chris talking away, to then sit out in the cold! I was not a happy bunny! I tried though, but nothing was coming to mind! In the end I went home early and went to sleep! However, after a couple of days the illness passed quite nicely and decided to meet up with some people down at the archway! I managed to get some prep sketches in, but because it was so difficult and didn't get much help from Chris because I went home early, some looked a bit... funny? Is that a good enough word? I clearly didn't know what to do! Because you can't see the vanishing point or the horizon line like you could in the canal project, you had to use references in the environment to gather what you need to make the horizon line and the vanishing point! Sometimes I had many vanishing points, sometimes it just looked squashed and a bit iffy! But I kept going with it. In the end I felt that my prep sketches were enough and thus I started on my final.

On my final piece I am quite happy with the work that I’ve done. The only problem Is, that I know where I have gone wrong! I accidentally made everything either too big or too small. If it was too small I had to stretch it to fit, so there wasn't any blank space of nothing. I did not enjoy the tree again! I really dislike trees. Especially with the angle that I chose. I felt I managed to get the horizon line and the vanishing point roughly right, but I did struggle a lot! Within my final piece I do need to add a few more things into it and some more detail. Within my prep sketches I know that I need to do more, and thus I will. This time I am going to analyse my photos of the archway and figure out the horizon line and vanishing point so when I come to do a final piece or more prep sketches this horizon line will be correct and everything will end up at the vanishing point! (Unless it's on another line, which I doubt it is!)