Graphic Design at UCK

Willa’s first task for HNGD 007 was to visit a virtual gallery from a given list and select an artwork to redraw. Then she had to choose another for comparison and write a statement to go along with this. Her choice was to draw Jenny Saville’s “Passage” and compare to Francis Bacon’s “The Reclining Female”. Here’s her submission for this first part of assignment 1:
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Willa’s Drawing
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Her statement with attached images:
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In the next task, Willa was given a drawing from “Il quarto stato,” 1898 by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. She was to recreate this figure on a grided A3 sheet. Her drawing follows:
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Willa’s third task required her to select a small plant with many leaves. Using a viewfinder, she had to draw this plant, using shading to replicate the 3D look in pencil. Her drawing follows:
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Lastly, Willa had to develop and improve the plant from the previous exercise by adding colours. As follows:
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