Our first exercise was to create a selection of portrait drawings of the person in front of us. My first sketch was the one on the bottom right, this picture was made with my eyes closed and was made in 2 minutes. I found this task difficult as it tests your memory and it is difficult to remember which areas you haven't sketched in etc. The second sketch we made was on the bottom right. This was made using our alternate hand, I found this task difficult as my left hand is very weak and it took a long time to fill in very little. Although I found it difficult, I was quite pleased with the result. The next task was to create a drawing with the pencil in our mouth. This task was incredibly difficult and took a long time even though we only had 5 minutes for this drawing. The line came out very wobbly and I wasn't very pleased with the result. The last task was to draw ourselves, without looking at a mirror, only from memory. Again, I found this task difficult as I had to work from memory, although I was quite pleased with the result except it doesn't look like me. Overall I found this task interesting as it challenges you and makes you experiment new ways of drawing. I liked that I could see how each drawing differed from each other and how you can change the way in which you draw simply by not using your right hand or drawing from memory only.
Our next task was to draw our partners ear. We used an A1 sized piece of paper. Again, I found this task difficult in the way in which we had to draw something that was so small and make it huge to fill the page. In some ways it was easier than the previous tasks as we were able to look at our subject as well as using our preferred hand. I used charcoal in this drawing as it is my preferred choice of media because you can use it for shading as well as sketching.
We were asked to bring in a photo of ourselves. I chose a picture of myself with tiger face paint as I thought it would look more interesting (pictured below). We cut our pictures into 4 pieces and swapped with the people on our table to create a new face. Once we had done this, we found words which best described ourselves and our interests. My main artistic interests include the industrial revolution and the machine age, therefore I changed the word 'beauty' from a regular magazine, to become 'be auto' as I felt it reflected the idea of human and machine working side by side in this day and age. I surrounded the face with various photos I had taken of cranes, building sites, scaffolding and robots, as well as my own added sketches. One I had done this, I used charcoal to create a polluted-like atmosphere, and orange paint to reflect graffiti. 
Once I had finished my college, I then photocopied it and put it in black and white so that it would further reflect this idea of the industrial revolution and the invention of machines from the olden day. I then went over the 'O' in fluorescent orange paint. 
Once we had finished this task, we made a view finder and used it to find a section of the painting that we found interesting. I chose a simplified section of the painting, which included scaffolding, which, again I thought reflected the idea of the industrial revolution. I then sketched this section using charcoal to carry on the idea of pollution and give it a dirty, dusty appearance. The sketch is pictured below.
I enjoyed this task and it tested us out of our comfort zones, and gave us new ideas on how to draw. It was interesting to see how a simple picture of a person could become an abstract face and have a meaning and statement behind it, as well as leading to a completely abstract drawing from the view finder.
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