Life Drawing - Hands & Feet

Tuesday 29th January 2013 - Today we have carried on drawing hands and feet, but instead of just drawing in pencil we got told we had to go and find some sticks from outside and use them along with ink to draw with instead.
I found it difficult to start off with as I couldn't get it neat and perfect, however the messy effect did work on some of the pictures.
I especially like my final drawing as I was able to use a mix media throughout, I used charcoal, white pastel and ink to get different tones and textures.

Life Drawing

Tuesday 15th January 2013 - After doing an action plan of what we was going to do, we had a model come in for us to draw, we was told we could only draw the hands and feet so every 15 minutes the model would change into a different position and we could choose what to draw each time.

Throughout the session I had moved around the classroom to get different angels as well as using different materials such as pencil, charcoal and graphite stick so I was allowed to create different textures.

By the end of it all I had managed to create seven sketches, some were better than others.

Lino Printing

To begin with we drew six visuals into our sketch books of what we wanted our final outcome to look like, we then developed these ideas into something we wouldn't be able to recognise so it was almost abstract looking, for example my final outcome started out looking like a Lily, but I then zoomed in so close into it that you could hardly tell what it is. 

After choosing our final design we then had to draw the exact picture onto a piece of lino, which was then up to us to put it onto a bench hook and carve away pieces that we wanted. 

Once we was happy with what we had produced, we then had to use any colour paint to be put onto our plain lino cut then it was slowly pressed onto paper where the marks we had cut out gave out fine detail that we needed onto a piece of paper

Sweatshop

A Sweatshop is a hard working environment which is known for being unacceptable, difficult and dangerous.
The workers in a sweatshop are often working for very long hours for an extremely low pay, the majority of workers carry on with this lifestyle as for them there is no other way to make a living.
Not only do they completely violate the laws of minimum wage, they also allow child labour. 

Previously workers have stood up for themselves by organising unions to demand better working conditions, but they have instantly got turned down and even threatened, beaten up as well as getting fired on the spot. 
Women are often the main victims in sweatshops and make up 90% of the sweatshop labours, these women are usually between the ages of 15 - 22 and are taken advantage by the companies that own them so they are able to increase their own profit margins. 

The majority of our clothes that we buy today for example from labels such as "Nike", "Adidas", "Primark", "H&M", "Forever 21" and so on are all often made in sweatshops in the United States or in other countries such as Pakistan, Thailand and more.

However its not just the clothing industry that are involved in the sweatshop environment, common sweatshop goods include a variety of things such as tires, auto parts, toys, shoes and electronics.

 

Nike Factory in China