Reflecting on my location drawing, I found it interesting to work with different perspectives and angles of the same area, both indoors and outdoors. After sketching outside and at the Tate with my class, I went to a café to try and focus more on people in my drawings. I was not used to including people/characters in my location sketches, so found giving them character quite challenging. I feel like I got better at this over time, though still have a tendency to draw the area around the character as the main focus.
When drawing the ‘narrative story’ I wanted to use a very simple idea – a woman getting a text from a loved one. I knew I would find drawing the same character multiple times to be difficult, as it means maintaining the proportions and shapes of the character, so I chose to focus on the expressions and keeping continuity, rather than making the ‘plot’ too dramatic. I do think I managed to show clearly what is happening in the scene through expressions, though I would like to push them further at my next opportunity.