Drawing Session 3

Today were doing something very interesting to the city. With some coins and scissors, were sanding down bits of charcoal to get the charcoal dust to fall spread over the pages, although this didn’t make much sense at the moment, and was a very annoying task to do on our knees, after covering each sheet fully, we used our rubbers to rub out the charcoal at different bits, to create different shades and tone on the pages. Again in the same process we did last time, passing the pages along after 15 minutes, we would use the rubber to improve the shading and definition of a certain area. I found the task very different to what we normally would do, and I’ve never had a strong liking for using charcoal, so using it here was not exactly what I would have liked to do. But we did use the rubber to do it, instead of using the charcoal in hand, so it was easier than It seemed at first. I'm glad we did this to the city, as it really did improve the city, and made it look alive. Although it did highlight some of the problems our city had, for example the presence of 3 suns, a dozen city halls, a giant bunny and the BFG attacking the city. But these somehow add to the city’s feel. After finishing, it was time to spray the sheets to keep the charcoal intact. Because of the spray and our lack of masks, we stuck the sheets up on the walls, and in turns went into the room and sprayed every page. After this we took them back to the animation room, and stuck them back on the wall in their order to gaze at it. We all celebrated how successful the city now looked. It reminded me of the city the 2^nd year had done last year, of course since I worked on this, I'm going to say its even better than theirs. The city in its entirety looks incredible well done, as if double the actual amount of time was taken to create it. But if you were to look at individual objects on the pages, you’d see they aren’t very well done, but because of the sheer amount on the sheets, and the charcoal shading, it looks great.