Todays lesson - 3rd October 16

In todays lesson, I carried on drawing sections of my bear that I had brought into college in different ways. The bear that I had brought in is special to me as it was passed on down from my Dad to me and when I have children, it will most likely be passed on down to them. The following pictures are of what I have done today:

This first step is when I had to stick pieces of newspaper down into my sketchbook. I had to leave one of them untouched and the other, I had to brush some emulsion on to the top of it. After this, I had to draw the same thing on to each of them so that I would understand the difference between them.

The first drawing in this image was a biro drawing onto the blank piece of newspaper. I focused on the nose of the bear and the fur around it. I found out that the pen is a lot darker on the newspaper than it is on the normal paper. On the other hand, when I drew the nose and fur onto the emulsion newspaper, I immediately found out that it stood out a lot more as it was essentially black on white. I think that the fur was quite precise compared to drawings that I have done in the past. The drawing on the bottom is of the same area on the bear as the others, however in this drawing, I have focused on tone and mark making on the fur. As I was using biro, I could not shade as well as I could with a pencil, so I then added graphite to the drawing in order to improve the tone of the fur.

Next, I drew on top of a strip of newspaper and also on to the blank sketchbook paper. I used biro again and then painted some white emulsion on top of it and then worked into that a little bit. I did not like this method as it hides some of the detail that was previously put into it. After this, I then went on to combining all of the previous techniques to make a final drawing. I first stuck a piece of newspaper down and then started drawing in biro onto it. After this I stuck down a smaller piece of newspaper on top of this layer and then used graphite on top of it. Next I painted on some white emulsion around the edges of the drawing to make it stand out; to add to the drawing, I stuck down individual letters from the newspaper to spell out, 'USED'. I used this word to get the message across that sometimes used toys/objects can often be the best, most special things in life.