ROARRR! DINOSAURS!

ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Dinosaurs! The creatures that ruled the world many of thousands of years ago, who got wiped out of extinction from a giant meteor! Well that's how the story is told, there are many other conspiracy but I shall not wondering into that debate! So we are now into our 4^th week project and we have made it to dinosaur bones! For this project though, we specifically looked at rendering. How rendering is used, what pencils we should use and if we didn't use the right pencil, it was snapped by the almighty Chris Wright! It's like a horror movie for an artist! “THE PENCIL SNAPPER FROM HELL”, the bio would be “In this twist of a movie, a group of young artists from De Montfort University in Leicester, decided to take a trip to the local museum to draw. But they never knew what horrors lie awake in the depths of that museum. One specific monster in particular hunts those students, who use, a, HB pencil or less and snaps them. Students end in tears, students die from the horror, some may even fight back with sarcastic words. Who will take down this monster. And when will he ever stop!”. Wow, I really got into that! No offence Chris, I didn't used a HB! You can count on that, because I like my pencils. Very much. Leave me ALONE!

Right so Dinosaurs. We took a trip down to the local museum to sit and draw the dinosaur bone collection that they had there. Now with this project I was happy with. I enjoy drawing organic life forms very much! I feel I am much more at ease with organic shapes than technical things such as canals, archways or buildings! I knew directional shading was involved and I am not really a big fan directional shading, because if you make it wrong the whole things look wrong, but if you just use shading that is say horizontally all the way through it can look very flat. So it is very hard to get a balance between the two without fucking it up! So I played safe to begin with, and I shall be returning to do more, but for my first final piece and prep sketches I used very straight shade and shaded in parts that were darker when it bends (in hoping that it would look similar). But with a keen artist eye it did not turn our very well. I enjoyed my prep sketches. I like drawings organic things! The shading I admit was off, but apart from that I didn't really see much else wrong with them. I probably could've done more but that was just lack of time and self motivation! I normally enjoy drawing the final piece more than anything!

Within my final piece I felt very happy with my smiling turtle skull! It was a small dinosaur part but I thought it had good shading and places where I could really show off my skill! Drawing the initial outline was tricky as I was trying to make him look perfect! I didn't want the head to look too squashed or too elongated as it'll definitely look wrong! I wanted it to be so in proportion that the outline itself took me forever to do! When I was finally happy I finished him off! I enjoyed the rendering and when I start to do my next final piece I will more likely use directional shading to add the emphasis on what is rounded. Apart from the poor non use of directional shading, I am very happy with my smiling turtle! SMILE!