OUAN404 - Visual Language, Flow, Form and Force

OUAN404 - Flow, Form and Force:

I had immense fun drawing people from our class in life drawing sessions. I feel it's a vital part of being an animator that we should explore different poses on a daily basis and learn how to draw from different angles, perspectives and also through spaces. We were asked to capture the essence of motion through a series of drawings of our peers or other models in order to improve our life drawing skills and to understand how a character can move through a space and creating a particular emotion or character personality. For instance, we had a go at creating jolly and bouncy movements and capturing those in short bursts of time using a range of different media.

After trying different poses, time lengths and media, I decided that my favourite media for capturing flowing, soft movement was watercolours, inks and brush tip markers. Wet media gave that essence of fluidity and had a really nice aesthetic to it. For sharper, angry or abrupt movement, pencil, charcoal or graphite felt nice and fitting. For heavy, manly, boisterous or dragging movement, thick lines worked best and chiseled tip markers seemed to capture that. I learned a lot whilst doing this activity and felt that I improved slowly as the drawings went on. I would love to do this again sometime!