Students were working on an Aliens project. This began with research into different animals exploring their form, features and textures. Students began working with pencil, they explored the same animal from a range of angles including a close up of the eye. These were completed in line, pencil tone and colour pencil.
Following the students pencil drawings, students moved onto biro/ pen work. Again they looked at a range of angles, students where shown a choice of techniques including cross hatching, scribble and dotting to create tone with pen/biro.
The third animal study was completed in paint and for their fourth study students could select their most successful media to develop further. Once the research into the four key animals was completed students progressed to merging together a range of animals to design their alien. These were then to be created using paper, modroc, card, air drying clay, wire and paint. Unfortunately due to lock down they were left incomplete.
Following the Alien's project students moved on to look at one-point perspective. The initial stages of this explored understanding of how one point perspective worked through looking at simple boxes from different angles.
To develop understanding of one point perspective, students progressed from looking at simple boxes o more complex shapes.
To build on depth of understanding of one-point perspective Students began to create furniture. This was to build on skills that would lead to a room drawing.
In their second last activity in the perspective module students completed a room in one-point perspective. This focused on creating a room with functioning amounts of furniture and where possible considering direction of light to add tone and shadows.
The final piece of work in this unit combined all the skills explored in the unit. Students created a tonal, colour study in the surrealist style. Students were encouraged to rotate the page to change the floor of the page. This way altered the rules of gravity. Students were also shown to change the scale of objects or place unusual ones in the room to add to the style. The most able students considered direction of light source when adding tone and shadows.
