Week 29 - Virtual Tour - Transport Museum
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For the
final week of the term, we were given the option of two vehicle museum locations
to do a virtual tour of, of which I was mostly drawn in by the Hull Street life
Museum of Transport since it had a wider range of vehicles to choose from.
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Vehicles
are an object type that I personally have never drawn before, so I thought that
this might be an interesting exercise in both material properties and
perspective.
Initial Sketches:
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To begin,
I virtually walked around the museum to view the various types of vehicles on
display. I was drawn to 3, mostly because the angles within the museum were
easy to get a full view of the vehicle from. I chose 2 cars and 1 cart.
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From
these sketches, I could gauge already that the bottom right would not be an
interesting angle to draw from and would not have an exaggerated perspective to
infer movement.
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This left
the ice cream van and the cart, of the two I was especially drawn to the cart
since the large ellipses seemed like an interesting shape contrast to the rectangular
shape of the cart. I also thought that the front arms (?) of the cart added to
the perspective more than the subtle lines of the van, and I thought most
people would do a car for this week – might as well be quirky and different.
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Initial Sketches |
Reference:
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This was
the reference I took from the Street life museum. As you can see, the whole
cart is dark in value with some areas of subtle highlight. It also has an
incredibly intricate painted pattern along the wheels and the sides of the
storage area, and as much as I would have loved to sit there for hours making
that pattern, I knew from experience that the moment I start adding graphic
designs and patterns to things, I start slipping up and getting lazy. I also
did not have the time with deadlines quickly approaching, so I kept the
patterns to a minimum.
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The
blocks and supports for the cart really assisted in making the perspective of
the scene more dynamic, since then the whole cart is on a raised slant above
the ground.
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Reference |
Final Piece:
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For this
final piece, I chose to make a differentiation between the supports and the
cart in value. This was not on the reference, but I took liberties to make sure
the depth of the scene properly read. To do this, I lightened most camera
facing planes to make them seem closer, and darkened elements like the back
wheel and the underside of the card more dramatically.
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The
shading style I chose for this piece was a crosshatching/hatching style, since
I thought it might convey the flat planes of the cart better than a technique
such as circling or stippling.
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If I were
to do this again, I would have pushed the contrast further, and maybe add a
shadow under the cart to further establish the depth of the image.
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I was
however happy with the outcome of this piece, and I can say this piece only
took me about an hour to get done which was great for my deadlines. Considering
how much trouble I was having with environments the weeks past; I wonder if
that has now paid off in making this piece better since I was just focussing my
energy on one object instead of a whole scene.
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Final Piece |
Final Conclusions + First Year Conclusions:
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I will
cover my plans going forward soon in another blog post, however for now I wanted
to touch on and say that I am happy with the overall quality jump that has
occurred between portfolio 1 and portfolio 2. I believe it is partly down to my
skill set being more geared to doing rendered pieces over technical drawings,
however I think that my skills improved from doing the term 1 work and that has
spilled into term 2. I think my term 2 portfolio is overall more consistent and
stronger, and I took more time this term in applying edits and updates to
pieces from feedback so that I could speed up my progress.
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I will
not lie – traditional this year has been hard for me, especially because of
Covid hamstringing the in person contact time so the work I initially thought
would be a social activity in a group doing a still life became me locked in my
room trying to cram a piece in before the lesson online I would have the next
day. I am hoping that from both my newfound confidence in drawing and in
restrictions being eased by next year, I can find a little more joy and a lot
less stress in traditional drawing again.
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