A rakes progress - Ending Recape

Recap of how I got to where I got to making Plaster Armour, bit of reflecting on where I could of gone better.

Typography work

Doing some Typography work just to practice, 3D mainly. Was thinking of something like this for the A Rakes Progress work but pretty sure the plaster casted armour is where it's at.

Not so life drawing

Tryed drawing in a slightly different way, I was using Charcoal and thinking about everything I did a lot less. It started with just straight lines on the Rib cage which I'm really happy with, ending with just fast strokes across the page not necessarily straight. But overall I really like what it looks like. So yeah. I'm happy with this. Could improve if I talked about the Hobbit a little less though.

Arm Cast + Fabric

Experimenting with putting Fabric into my casts, need to work out how to fasten it in but really like the idea of random, yet slightly crazy (or insane) materiels. Combine this with the idea of painting it and I really like where my plan for the A Rakes Progress project is going!

Plaster cast and Armour

http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/

Link to a wordpress blog, which has got a section where someone had made a plaster cast armour piece before using it to create a full set of armour. Pretty similar all thought I want to build on the plaster, not make a metal suit on top of the plaster!

Our painting after it went up on the wall, We need to make sure it's put down further away so that you can look from further away but overall I and the other three people are happy with it. You have to look at it to appreciate it.

Really want to try some kind of 3D for the Rakes Progress project. I'm enjoying the idea of working on some kind of plaster based armour. Some kind of burden, it links to the past in that our armour now is no longer heavy but doesn't directly link to A Rakes Progress. Need to give it some thought but I'm happy with where it's going.

"Life" Drawing - Prettry proud of this, I was mark making with pencil and drawing/shading with charcoal. It took me a while but I really started to get into it and enjoy it. I'm quite proud of the end result, do realise that the eyes are messed up but that is something I will have to look out for next time!

A painting by Me, Nud, Ben and Liam. It's to do with A Rakes Progress and the insanity behind it all, It's him laying down from the last painting where we all drew one thing from a painting, moved to the next canvas and drew one thing from the next painting and then repeated it. The end looked really chaotic and quite cool. We did add more to it though!

On a side not, this is probably one of the more happy paintings I've had. I'm normally unhappy with them!

Just tryed drawing someone in Public for the first time. TO say I'm not the best drawer is was slightly strange. Actually quite enjoyable but I definitely did not show anyone I was doing it.