Wow this was very challenging but I feel like I got a lot out of this project. It's definitely been one that has forced me to think a lot more. I had to draw the object a few times to cement the forms and angles into my head before trying them from memory or another angle, which helped so much. I drew the anvil and red wheelbarrow from memory (corrected the wheel after) then drew the blue wheelbarrow from memory and at a different angle. The sledgehammer and wrench were quite challenging so I drew them from a different angle with a reference open of their original position. I was dreading this project because I know my visual memory is lacking but I ended up quite enjoying it!

This was challenging but fun. I did boxes 1-14 from imagination and then tried doing it with references from 15-18.

Tried to do a few more grounded pieces of gestural architecture. I’m really struggling with constructing the roofs I just can’t seem to get them to look right and I’m not sure how to fix that.

Went a bit mad with this one. I was having a lot of fun with it so I decided to play around with different brushes and such. Definitely went heavy on the distortion though haha. I tried to draw more grounded architecture afterwards but kept getting frustrated with pitched roofing so any tips in that department are welcome too!

re-did this project and I'm happy with the attempt. I feel like my cross contour understanding has slightly improved since my last piece- which is always encouraging. This is a fun project and one I'll definitely practice a lot.

This was so fun! Really enjoyed trying to make a story scene with them and fit their poses around that.

This was fun! Starting to get the hang of it and how the lines should feel.

I enjoyed doing these, I think they make a great warm up too. I did some blobs to boxes from imagination and I also did some based on the images that were given during the rhythms project.

Repeated the van again, getting more comfortable with the wheels. I know i should have done the back wheels properly with the method Stan showed us but my brain was lagging so much after trying to do the front wheels haha. Great way to practice ellipses though.

I struggled to wrap my brain around this one at first, as you can see from the blue van. I then went back and watched the explanations again and also the demo and critique and tried again with the red van. I'm starting to get a feel for it. I can see I messed up with the back wheel the most but it's something to analyse and work on more with my next one.