Its been a long time since we had our
drawing sessions with Tom, but I think were all happy to see Tom's
beard make an appearance in everyone’s life once again.
The work began with Tom explaining we
would have a group collaboration of some sort, which we would be
doing throughout this semester. It would be similar to what we saw
the 2nd year do last year. Creating a massive city, along
with characters and buildings on a dozen sheets of A3 paper. But this
week, we began the collaboration with drawing simply shapes you’d
commonly find in any city, and shapes and lines that come to mind in
Leeds, or any other city we know. Here is my sheet from the activity:
As you can see the drawings are not
detailed or been given much time, but that was not the aim of the
session. This was to get our minds thinking about the kinds of shapes
and buildings we think of when we hear 'city', in preparation of
beginning the city, next week. There isn’t much more to say about
this particular session, other than it was nice to be back in the
drawings lectures, and I looked forward to this collaboration. After
seeing the work done by year above us last year, I have looked
forward to this fun and creative project for months, and happy were
are getting down to do it.
The collaboration has begun with each of the students creating one single building/sign/statue etc. on our individual A3 sheets, with the knowledge it would be part of a bigger drawing of the city. Therefore it needed to be an appropriate size for what the item was, for example a STOP sign shouldn’t be drawn directly in the middle of the page, the size of our hand. We were not told exactly what to draw, aslong as it was an item you would commonly find in a city. The first thing I drew on my sheet was a STOP sign, as I didn’t want to create a big building first, without thinking about the city's layout, and planning for further additions. We were given a few minutes to draw our first item, we then passed our sheets to the person on our left, while being given the sheet from the person on our right, and then be given a few more minutes to draw something on this sheet, with the result being every student having contributed to each sheet of the city, which I felt was a good thing, it strengthened the idea that this was a collaboration, and each students skill and creativity is necessary for the city we are going to create. We did this passing around sheets and each adding one item at a time to each sheet for the rest of the session, and by the end we had 6 sheets that were relatively full, and beginning to look like a functioning city. Although the sheets had less buildings that was expected, and more characters, which we were told would not be added until a future time. But of course hearing this, the students did the exact opposite and began drawing children and animals. I feel the collaboration is coming along well, and the 6 sheets put together look very impressive. I'm looking forward to next when, we we continue the same activity until the entire sheets are filled.
The collaboration has begun with each of the students creating one single building/sign/statue etc. on our individual A3 sheets, with the knowledge it would be part of a bigger drawing of the city. Therefore it needed to be an appropriate size for what the item was, for example a STOP sign shouldn’t be drawn directly in the middle of the page, the size of our hand. We were not told exactly what to draw, aslong as it was an item you would commonly find in a city. The first thing I drew on my sheet was a STOP sign, as I didn’t want to create a big building first, without thinking about the city's layout, and planning for further additions. We were given a few minutes to draw our first item, we then passed our sheets to the person on our left, while being given the sheet from the person on our right, and then be given a few more minutes to draw something on this sheet, with the result being every student having contributed to each sheet of the city, which I felt was a good thing, it strengthened the idea that this was a collaboration, and each students skill and creativity is necessary for the city we are going to create. We did this passing around sheets and each adding one item at a time to each sheet for the rest of the session, and by the end we had 6 sheets that were relatively full, and beginning to look like a functioning city. Although the sheets had less buildings that was expected, and more characters, which we were told would not be added until a future time. But of course hearing this, the students did the exact opposite and began drawing children and animals. I feel the collaboration is coming along well, and the 6 sheets put together look very impressive. I'm looking forward to next when, we we continue the same activity until the entire sheets are filled.
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