HA3 Task 1 - Mark-Making Portfolio

01 - Primary Observation Portraits Exercise

The primary observation portraits were drawn at home and they were drawn using a member of my family as a model for the drawing.

02 - Primary Observation Expressive Portraits Exercise

These portraits were drawn by myself looking into a mirror. There are 6 different expressions I had to do. The name of the expression is above the individual portraits.

03 - Primary Observation Figures Exercise

These 4 figures were made, via using real life models, in their respective positions. The positions are standing, sleeping, sitting and walking.

04 - Primary Observation Expressive Hands Exercise

These 4 hand gestures are drawings of my left hand, in 4 different expressions.

05 - Secondary Observation Gridded Exercise

These two gridded pages are mean't to be side by side, and they were copied square by square from a photograph of a man in the middle of parkour on a building, with the word parkour in bold at the bottom of the photo.

06 - Secondary Observation Mythical Creature Exercise

This is the mythical creature exercise. We combined the body parts of multiple creatures into one, in order to create a mythical beast. The body parts are the feet of an eagle; the head of a peacock; the torso of a man; the wings of a bat; the legs of a cheetah and crab claws.

07 - Secondary Observation Tracing Exercise

This task was when we took photos of someone else, and traced over them. In this case I chose this particular pose, and traced over the photo. Upon doing so, I  put the traced version of the photo version, and took the photo that is seen above.

08 - Construction Drawing Manga Head Exercise

In this task, we followed an online video on YouTube, in order to learn how to draw manga heads. The intended expression on the drawings is mean't to be one of embarrassment. This finished drawings are seen above.

09 - Silhouette Figure Drawing Exercise

In this exercise, we had to observe people around the college, and draw their silhouettes. I provided 8 examples, which are all displayed above.

01 - Isometric Perspective Exercise

02 - Single Point Perspective Exercise

03 - Two Point Perspective Exercise

04  - Three Point Perspective

05  - Two Point Perspective Space Station Exercise

In these sets of exercises, we were required to show the different examples of the perspective method via templates. The 5 exercises seen above are examples of the various perspective techniques.

06 - Crated Primitive Objects Exercise 1 

06  - Crated Primitive Objects Exercise 2

06 - Crated Primitive Objects Exercise 3

For this set of 5 exercises, we were required to use the method Crating in order to create different shapes. The examples shown above are Pyramid, Sphere, Torus, Cone and Cylinder.

01 - Mark Making Techniques Exercise

In this exercise, we were required to use different line drawing techniques in order to complete the work sheet that is seen above. The image is of my finished piece.

02 - Blended Shading Technique Exercise

In this exercise, we had to use blended shading to create a drawing of a stack of plastic plates, cutlery and cups that were stacked in various ways by myself. Seen above is my finished work.

01 - Pastel Textures Exercise

For this exercise, we were required to use pastels, to draw pictures of provided images. Seen above is the two finished pieces.

01 - Party Blower Ideas Generation Exercise

For this exercise, we had to provide twenty ideas of party blower uses and display them, as images. Seen above are my twenty different ideas. 

01 - Colour Wheel Exercise

For this colour theory exercise, we had to take the 3 primary colours and create secondary and tertiary colours on a colour wheel. This is my final work piece.

02 - Analogous Colour Scheme Exercise

For this exercise, we were required to colour 4 letters with analogous colours. Seen above is my 4 letters with the appropriate colours applied to them.

03 - Complementary Colour Scheme Exercise

For this exercise, we had to colour in 9 letters with colours that were opposite on the colour wheel. Seen above is my finished work piece.  

04 - Triadic Colour Scheme Exercise

For this exercise, we were required to colour in a design with colours that were equally apart on the colour wheel. My finished piece is seen above. 

01 - Brush and Ink Landscape Exercise

In this exercise, we were required to use ink and brushes in order to paint, in want of a better word,  buildings around the college and to paint them in different tones. Seen above are all 4 of my paintings.