Observation drawings

Observation drawings play a huge role in art. If there is one way of truely polishing off your art skills, it's by drawing a lot of observation drawings. An obervation drawing is a drawing of something that you observe in real life. It cannot/may not be off of a picture, unless you draw a drawing of the picture itself.

Observation drawings can be a compilation of a few drawings into one single one, or a drawing of a single object. It can be something big, small, complicated or simple, as long as you observe the object.

Even though it is called an observation drawing, you don't necessarily have to make a pen or pencil sketch. It can consist out of a variety of different mediums, or only one. It can be painted, drawn, splattered or done in any other way that you can think of.

I used a huge variety of mediums for my observation drawings this year. I mostly enjoyed the charcoal drawings, but just because it's quite tricky to work with and I, for one, like a challenge.

Here are my second term's observation drawings. I sketched them all in pencil, in my journal, and these were all simple skethes. It is a drawing  of a spoon, eraser, key, cracked egg shell and an origami bird.

Here are my third term's drawings. I actually had inspiration for this terms sketch and thus I had a spesific way of placing everything together. It is a pencil sketch of a stressed hand, that has an eye in the middle thats getting ripped open by two other hands that is sticking out of it from the inside, It just shows a state of shock and pain. I don't know why I thought of this, but I think that I still have to figure the meaning of this drawing out myself.

Here are my final term's observation drawings. I wanted to do something else for a change. I wanted to sketch people this term. People who means something to me. This is why I chose to sketch four observation drawings of people. 

I also wanted a challenge and thus drew them all on A4 pages and out of charcoal. I stuck newspaper articles at the back of 3 of my charcoal sketches and drew on top of that. To seal the page, afterwards, I covered it with a layer of hairspray.

Could you spot the odd one out? Thats right. I drew one other observation drawing. This time it was an actual pen sketch. One of a crumbled up water bottle that is filled with water. Like I stated earlier, I was searching for a challenge, and I think I found one with this spesific drawing.