OUAN404 - Visual Language: Spaces and Places

OUAN404 - Spaces and Places:

Over the Christmas holidays when I had a fair bit of time to explore some interesting places, I decided to visit my family in Liverpool as they would often take me to the city centre and museums and plenty of interesting places in hope that I would take photographs and draw from them and use them as inspiration for future work.

The brief we were set, "Spaces and Places" meant that we had to visit at least three different places and draw 5 observational drawings from them. We had to take into account perspective (I like drawing from unusual or challenging perspectives and angles as you can never have enough practice and it gives the work a little more oomph in comparison to simple straight on or side views), colour, texture, media and line. We were also persuaded not to go any smaller than A4. I found that working on A3 was quite nice as although it was more time consuming, I prefer to work larger and it gave me that freedom to use my elbow, wrist, hand and shoulder when drawing which gives a completely different feel to sketch rather than working on A4 and just being restricted to using your hand.

I chose 2 outdoor spaces and one indoor. I don't do much outdoor work so I felt that this would help me with environmental composition and drawing as opposed my usual character design work. I want to explore and learn as much about every aspect of design as possible. I do not want to restricted to characters as I feel that in order to specialise in one area of animation, you need to have vast knowledge and experience in all areas beforehand.