Drawing Week 2: Lining Paper Drawings with Will Stevens

In this drawing session with Will, we worked on pieces of lining paper which was really fun. We focused on creating textural drawings, and looked at scale, as well as the tools we use to draw with and constrictions we may put in place, and how these constrictions effect a drawing.

For the first drawing, we chose one object from our box - mine was a balloon that I had found on the floor outside, and it had decayed and cracked. We had to draw this first object small scale and in as much detail as possible. After this the  drawing progressed through 3 further stages; through each stage the scale was enlarged and detail was lost, so that by the end I was drawing one large scale, abstract pattern that loosely linked to the first drawing. I really enjoyed this task and I think my outcomes were successful.

For this exercise we partnered up, and then split into groups. We had one sheet of lining paper between our pairs that were arranged on the floor with our group to create a star shape. We each sat at either end of our sheet facing our partner. We selected the tools we were going to draw with and had to join them together with a piece of string. We then had to draw our partner upside down with their head nearest to us. The constriction was the joint drawing tools, because when your partner moved, your tool was in sync so it moved with theirs. This was a really unusual drawing but playful and the outcome was rough and different. We then went round the groups trying to match up the person with their portrait - a fun way to end the drawing session.