Week 23- OTM Blues III

Another week of off the map and well another week of well not really feeling all that right with this course but going on about it like a record player doesn’t get the work done so here are the fruits of my labour.

Marvelous

practising posing

for jasdev_edited

It’s not much actually looking at this now. In fact I'm very disappointed in myself. I would have hoped that my mood wouldn’t have had such an affect towards my work output but looking at these images it seems that I'm letting myself slip a lot. Of course I do not get to always work on things I enjoy but comparing this to my work output of the weeks say the sentry gun or character project this work output is abysmal.

Enough of this let’s talk about the week itself. This week as part of Off the map we as a group presented towards our tutors. Feedback was mainly concerned about was the size of the map and creating a dense and engaging project.

As of writing now we are cutting down the map as evidenced by the images below.

Moreover this week we had an enjoyable change of pace in life drawing as we had much more free quick poses as well as student feedback on our work. Having this change of pace was such a joy for me it put things in perspective in terms of my weakness in life drawing as lately I have been feeling as if I am plateauing in this area. I just wish that we have more sessions such as this in the future as I feel going back to the bog standard drawing a sitting pose week in and out has stagnated my work and passion for life drawing. In fact generally this week would have been a lot worse if it wasn’t for the help of this life drawing session and the help of fellow students who are also enthusiastic about rendering organic living forms. Things such as this remind me why I am on this course. I am sorry about the sudden change of mood in this post as at the time of writing now I have taken a break to work on some gesture drawing as part of some advice I was given earlier. "Don't torture yourself on something you don't enjoy".

Admittedly I haven’t enjoyed this project because I don't feel like I am getting anything out of it that would improve me as an artist and shoe horning in things to do so hasn’t worked. It’s clear and although it’s not a strong plan but it would allow me to work with my group with a much better mood. To make things such as life drawing my primary area of focus and off the map secondary. This will allow me to maintain my mood and in turn hopefully help the production of my work for Off the Map as the work I have produced this week is not acceptable just in general.

Anyway this has been week 23 I need to have a think about what I really want to do from now on.