Life drawing research

Frank Auerbach

Henry Moore

Alberto Giacometti

Egon Schiele

Leon Kossoff

Life Drawing 8/11/14

These are the work that i create during our first life drawing session of the foundation course. The first drawing was using a skeleton as the model. I think that the skeleton worked quite well as i feel that i got the form of the bones quite well but i feel that they were a little out of proportion.

The rest of the drawing were studies of an actual life model, i feel that these studies didn't work that well at all as i struggled to get both the shape and form of the figure accurately. 

After doing some simple studies of the model we were then challenged to draw the figure within decreasing lengths of time, ranging from around 15 minutes at the beginning down to around 5 seconds towards the end. I think that doing this exercise really helped me as it challenged me to capture as much as the figure as quickly as possible, stopping me from think too much about the accuracy of the drawing.

From doing the quick drawing i feel that it has improve my drawing slightly as it meant that i got the proportions of the figure better naturally with out thinking about it too much.

The last drawing that i did was created by using scribble line to create the figure, despite the drawing being less clear and detailed i feel that i was still able to get the proportions and shape of the model much more accurately that i was able to at the beginning of the session.

The Hub - Placement

Logo Research

London visit - prep

The Tate Modern

The Tate modern is the world most visited art gallery with around 4.7 million visitors annually. It is based in the former bankside power station in the London borough of southwalk. The Tate hold part of the national collection of art created form 1900 to the present day it also has collections of international modern and contemporary art.

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a large range of specimens from various segments of natural history. it is one of three large museums on exhibition road the other two being the science museum and the Victoria and Albert museum. it is home to around 80 million items in five collections, botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology.

Logo Creation - the hub

Logos and Brand Identity

Brand identity is how a business or a brand wants there company to be precised, usually through their brand  name, logo, imagery and  through other ways of communication.

Rules for logo design 

- The logo should reflect the company, a trait of the company or theme that the company is about.

- Avoid too much detail, a simpler logo is much more eye catching and recognisable that a more complex one but avoid been too simplistic as it can have the opposite effect.

- Colour, avoid using colours that are to bright as they can be harsh on the eyes, it is best to use colours that are close to each other. tip: if the logo doesn't work well in black and white it wont work in any colour.

- Make sure the logo is balance, make sure the eye isn't drawn to one area.