Initial Sketches

Unit 1, Assignment 1.1, Part B:

2) + 3) Review your Arts Challenge every week and write a 300 word report on how you have attempted to achieve your Arts Challenge.

This week I decided to complete some sketches in response to the theme ''Cool Britannia''.  I sketched items that you would think of as typically British for instance a first class stamp, the London eye, a cup of tea ans an umbrella ( represents the rainy weather of Britain). I decided to sketch in a collage style as that is what I will be doing for my final piece. All sketches were done based on images I found online and are not done in great detail because this was just an initial sketch of ideas.

As you can see from the close ups above I used crosshatching to add shadows to the objects which I think made them more realistic. Also I used blending to create softer shadows, these can be seen in the image above where this technique was used to create cheek bones on the Queens profile in the first class stamp.