Period Two, learning what not to want

A struggling period for me. Trying to find a way to draw like in the workshop, but then much bigger. The largest artwork being 2 by 1.5 meters (last 2 photos in slideshow) in which each line can be seen and each line was a torture to make: the wall on which i hang the paper was very rough and i had to press hard on the siberian chalk to make heavy think lines :(

But i don't like that big one. I prefer the finer lines of pencil that i used for other big drawings in this period. Plain charcoal also isn't very usefull when trying to draw precise, clear lines >.<

At the end of this period i felt a bit stuck, my imagination wasn't sufficient enough to make up new shapes that aren't generic and are abstract. I knew i would need an inspiration, wether it's something i see in nature or something from a photograph. But using an image felt a bit fake, inferior to what i make myself (Plato's mimesis :P ). What i learned in Period Three (the Minor period) was that images aren't inferior as long as i don't mimic them but use specific details of them and transform it into something completely different. It all sounds very vague but if you look at my blogpost in March 2008 about the Minor u might see what i mean.

Summary: Period 2 taught me more about technique than what my fasciniation is. I learned what i did NOT like :P

Nude Model drawings Period One and Two

After Period Two ended we had to present all our work and progress to our teachers. Mine consisted of two parts, one wall artworks and on an other one i wanted to show my modeldrawings. I made a selection of 12 drawings from period one and two that showed how i progressed at my techniques, from simple yet precise lines to only shades of grey without any contourlines.

Workshop week before the start of Period Two

A short yet very intens week. Also a week in which i discovered my own way to draw 3D objects. Previously i had been struggeling trying to draw stones in perspective. From this point on i am able to see things differently.

Period One

Finally some time to complete the blog.
This slide contains my artworks of period one, second year at St. Joost.

What began as a collection of stones, became a stepping stone to the second period.