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Ink & Straw & Nail:
Interesting experiments but ugly outcome 🗑.

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From top left to right, these are my 6 drawings.

To me experiments with just black and white means just to play with shapes and values. Each piece has a small modification in it:
from just charcoal smudges + ink (1),
putting white pastel on a black matte surface (2)

drawing JUST the shadows (3)

forming lines along the shape (4)

improvising based on basic pose(5)

to playing with leaf cutting and ink (6)

I definitely liked some and did not like some, but I know which is my favourite for now, and will use it in my other projects.

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I used to sketch only in pencil, but in this class I tried a lot of other materials, not only to try to draw directly with markers and oil pens, but also to use newspapers, snack wrappers, toilet paper... i found it interesting to use the materials I collected to express different textures. Anx it was also the first time I used collage to sketch. I think I really learned a lot, this is a good start for me to try new things.

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I love the texture of this ink. It can be thick and light, can be tense and soft. I would like to use this to strengthen the context and also charcoal adds something wild sense to the pictures. Some of the models are my friends and I want to use black line and color to demonstrate their personalities. The most interesting part of painting is doing whatever I want. I also want my painting like wind breeze. Both gentle and wild exists.

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I never use the Procreate before, so in this class I tried
procreate which was really interesting.
I think I will use this method to practice more and more.

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In this course, I tried to use many new materials to describe people. I found that I liked the feeling of crayons and ink, which made me draw quickly. It was an interesting experience to try new materials, and I felt very happy in these attempts.

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love the lesson

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This was my first time using a carbon pencil, and the process of sketching was amazing, which made me more motivated to try different materials.

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Actually，before this class I only use automatic pencil to draw. But during this class I tried to use other tools to draw. It is vary interesting.

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It was a great experience to try live drawing in class.  Also,  it was really fun to draw because each student had very different characteristics. I tried to draw with using various expressions of lines, and I thought it was really attractive and I should try more various materials next time.

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I love this practice!

This is my first time using chockal on drawing. Because it’s not that easy to draw details, helping me  pay more attention to the whole picture.

Then I tried one-line drawing on newspapers,collage, using a ball pen and a big brush.

The result wasn’t always good, sometimes I wanted to apologize to the classmate standing on stage. But I still enjoy trying new materials and observing the same or the different ways we used.

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It‘s a wonderful drawing class，I tried different materials and methods. I think collage with newspapers and paper with different textures will have unexpected effects

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I love this class a lot! At first, I actually not sure how to do the sketch, I just want to try something different then I usually do,  so I want to do some college, and I didn't bring any scissors, so I start tearing paper with my hands, turn out I really love the texture of tearing paper, the edge is special~I thing I will try to create some work with this methods☺️

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未命名-1_工作區域 1

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I really enjoyed today's class, I think today's class is so interesting!  I was very happy throughout the class🥳In the class this morning, I created a total of 15 works.  I used a combination of materials I brought with me and materials prepared by the teacher, with different kinds of pens and papers.  And I tried some new methods to create works, drawing characters with chalk on black cardboard, using brush and ink to quickly describe characters, and using crayon colors to quickly summarize the shape of characters, etc.  In addition, I look the works of my classmates, because everyone has a different style and can reflect the unique characteristics of each person, so it is very interesting!  I like the paintings of my classmates.  I think I can also try more different materials or use some collages to create characters or works.  Today's class made me realize that painting has many forms of expression, and if I have the courage to try new materials, it will bring different surprises!

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I used pencils, pastels, acrylics and collage to paint my classmates. Through this workshop I practised the skill of combining a variety of materials in a short period of time,  I had to quickly group colours, shapes and then think about what parts needed to be used. It was a fun and rewarding class!

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Use the elements and sentiments you feel and then try to express different people in different styles.

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At first I always wanted to express all the content in the creation, the result is not only the creation is not finished but also the content of the screen is very crowded.

Since then, I've only been able to highlight features like faces or what they're wearing, and I love that it saves time and exercises my ability to streamline lines and summarize things quickly.

I like this class very much and I am very enjoy to be a model.

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I promise this is the craziest live drawing I've ever done XD! Using different combinations of materials that I‘ve never tried before, I gradually set up feeling of observing people and learned how to use proper materials to describe their impression on me.
At the beginning, I felt quite conservative that I still just used a traditional way to make a quick sketch. However, I knew that it was not enough and my purpose of this module is trying to explore as much as I can to break my limits on painting. So, I became more brave in the following practices, picking 2-3 kinds of materials to construct the figures. I was very surprised that I enjoyed using oil pastels and color pencils, also sometimes collage to create my work.
Personally, I think today's class is really meaningful to me because it helps me to build a rudimentary experiment on how to express my thoughts with various materials. I hope there will be more interesting class like this :)

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To be honest, I am not very good at trying to paint with different materials. On the one hand, I don't know much about the materials, and on the other hand I'm always afraid that I won't do a good enough job. During today's process, it became clear to me that I was also worried about this. At first I was very restrained and at most I only tried carbon paper because I wanted to relax myself by drawing blindly, and later I tried charcoal strips, but I still didn't have a big breakthrough in my thinking.

During the break in the middle of the session I saw the work of the other students and they were really good at working with a variety of materials, so at the beginning of the second half I was thinking, how am I going to draw with the limited materials I have? Perhaps I could try more than just painting, so I then tried to make a very simple pop-up. I also thought about how the same materials could be used in different ways, so I tried a pencil drawing by one line. By the end of the course, I felt that I had completely let myself go.

From the initial restraint to the final spontaneity is the biggest gain of my session today.

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Today's class was a good try for me.

I tried to use as many combinations of materials as possible, such as material collage; colored pencils and markers; colored pencils, charcoal and ink; ink and markers, along with outline pens to make pictures more expressive.

It's interesting that the same painting material does not perform the same on papers with different background colors.

The collage of portraits is very interesting.

It seems to give these materials new life when you put them together into a paper to make them become a new image.

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Today tried some new ways to create paintings. There are two ways I like the most today. 1) I brush the background to build the silhouette, and add some lines to show details. I found that brushing ink with a brush would have beautiful textures. 2) I put ink into straw, block the other end of the straw with my finger to control the ink flow rate, then beautiful lines come out.

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This was a very interesting class! But unfortunately, my hands are allergic to carbon strips and chalk, so I basically drew with my ipad. I tried to make some collages with my previous collection of electronic materials, and I used them to show the textures of the clothes, which I found to be fun and better than hand-drawing. I brought some solid fabric materials before the class, but the colors were so bright that I didn't use them.In fact I bought a lot of materials! But the delivery didn't arrive before class. I plan to collect and try more methods in my work on the Book of Influences. For example, different materials show different feelings and atmosphere.

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I am always struggling with drawing human figure, and this workshop is my very first time to do quick sketch while a model is posing.
I found it challenging but also fascinating to try unfamiliar materials such as charcoal and chalk stick. I really love the texture of charcoals, but on the other hand it's very hard to draw in details with them.
I saw some classmates applying white chalk sticks on black paper, showing the black clothes in negative spaces, which really inspired me, so I tried a little in my last few sketches.

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In the first three sketches, I tried to use the technique that I was more familiar with - the combination of different painting materials (paint plus oil pastels and a pen) to do some different permutations, but to be honest, the outcome is not ideal as what I expected, at break time I saw many of intelligent classmates tried to use paper to do some collage, inspired me to use positive and negative space to complete the sketching, so during the fourth sketch, I cut off the human figure and then used the painting material to fill in the details, and the last one I use paper directly to make clothes, The human body is left blank, which I think creates another interesting effect.

Today's lesson allowed me to learn to use the properties of materials to their maximum effect and to do a sketch with methods that I hadn't tried before.

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I've created 7 pieces of work today. Though most of them were done in my ipad, which means they're digital drawings. I've tried different method to illustrate each of them. The variety of brushes is able to help me try out different effects and outcomes even only on ipad.
And I also make use of my masking tape collection in my hand drawing work. Instead of simply colouring it, I used the colours and patterns on the tape to show how was the jacket looked like.

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名称未設定のアートワーク 5

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It's really interesting to use different materials to try life drawing. Thank Greg and Paul for their generous offering of the paper and ink and Greg has been patiently to give hints during each drawing. It's also inspring to see other students' artworks. I'm impressed with Veronika's drawing with transparent plastic layers and some students' collage.
In my practice I try to use the materials that I am not familiar with, such as the charcoal, crayon and the black/grey paper. Although it should be a black and white practice, I use a little bit of color in my drawings when I think it is necessary. I also tried different techniques such as collage and combining the different materials (e.g. wet and dry materials) together. I tried different omposition/frame with the cutted paper. Not every outcome is successful but I do gain lots of experience in the process and become more familiar with the materials that I tried before such as pastel. Also it is totally different to do life drawing compared with drawing from photograph. And because the time is limited, sometimes you can create different effect on the works.
There's still a huge gap between the cognition and practice in reality. Although Greg has been mentioning "think about the influences", I barely think of anything but how to draw this very person with unfamilair materials and how to arrange everything. I think maybe drawing and painting are actually instinctive and spontaneous, and more importantly, physical, because your hands and eyes have to move, and the influence of other people is unconscious. But it's a great experience and it undoubtedly increases my bravery and creativity.

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1) For the pattern in her dress I used letter stamps. I got inspired when I saw the letterpress station while taking the workshop tour. You can barely see that there a many »a«'s hidden in her dress, but if you take a closer look it's a nice detail to discover. I also used oil crayons for the first time (:

2) She was wearing a lot of layers, which inspired me to draw her different clothing items on multiple layers of plastic. I enjoyed this technique, especially the effect the drawing gets when the layers don't fit perfectly.

3) For this sketch I tried drawing on bubble wrap. I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I turned the bubble wrap around and continued drawing on the other side. By doing this I created a second layer and got the chance to rework areas, which I didn't like in the beginning.

4) Her mesh blouse was see-through. To include this effect in the drawing I cut out a layer of plastic to the shape of her blouse. I also tried scratching parts of the white crayon to include more details.

5) For the details on her clothing items I used yarn and embroidered it into the paper. I used it for the chain and metal buckle on her purse and the pattern on her boots.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed today’s workshop, because I got the chance to try many techniques, which I normally wouldn’t use. It was inspiring to see how my classmates work and it made me think of different ways to approach my drawings in the future.

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We tried different ways of painting in the afternoon, a very interesting session.

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I’ve tried some different materials during today’s session. These may not be the perfect outcomes but I really enjoyed the process!

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Have fun with collages. A great time for me to think about how to draw different types of fabrics/textiles and enrich the texture and also to depict a figure in a space.

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A nice day! I drew my peers with various materials, through which I get some new experiences about different materials. I love this workshop!

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Today is really fun.