I spent a day of my holiday in Bournemouth doing observation drawing in the Russell-Cotes Museum and Gallery. The biggest struggle was not being happy with my first attempts and drawing something and then getting frustrated about it, I had to keep reminding myself that it takes a while to warm up and I can't expect accurate drawings all the time from myself. Another struggle I had was there being nowhere to sit, I find it really difficult to balance a sketchbook and draw all whilst standing and not having anything to lean against, I find that I have so much less control of my lines. I guess thats just personal preference.
Here is an example where I have drawn the same thing more than once and the second attempt is considerably better.
I have realised that for quite a while now I have been neglecting using graphite pencil as a drawing medium and I think it is clear in my drawings from today that I am out of practice at it. I started using pen more because it forces me to make a commitment with my lines on the page but I realise now I should keep using pencil to maintain these drawing skills.
This drawing of 'The Messenger' statue is one of my favourites from the day. I feel I became a but lapse with my consideration of line on the skirt of her dress but other than this I feel it is a strong representation of what I was looking at, AND it looks in proportion which is always good.
The proportions of my drawing of this statue aren't so good, I found it difficult to capture the angle at which each arm was pointing which would explain better why they look shorter than they should be.
Quick sketches of taxidermy birds.
This drawing was one of the last ones I drew on location and I feel that by this point in the day, I was into the swing of things and was churning out better drawings much quicker.
I took a lot of photos whilst looking around the museum and I will be sure to be using these as reference material for the 'draw every day' brief.
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