This document contains summaries of artworks created by the author in their sketchbook over time. It includes drawings of creatures from a museum trip done in pencil and with brown paper. Later pages show more detailed insect drawings from photos as well as an oil pastel butterfly wing study and a watercolor beetle painting that could be improved with more practice. Further pages describe a bird sketch, successful oil pastel recreation, watercolor reproduction that needs skin tone work, and life study drawings showing improvement over time including an incomplete full figure study.

1. With this piece of work we used a stencil of the human form to just roughly and quickly draw some
character ideas, as you can see these had to include an animal characteristic, in the drawing to the left
the man is more insect than human but with the one on the right it only has insect features and a tail.
To draw these i used a fineliner pen which made it harder as wouldnt be able to rub out any mistakes
made.

2. This picture is the first in my creature studies page in
my sketchbook, all the creatures on this page I drawn
from a trip to the Manchester museum. These drawings
are all pencil studies, I tried to change things a little by
drawing an insect using brown paper so it gives a
different effect.

3. This page is a continued page of the pencil
studies of insects, these images were
drawn by drawing from photos. These
images are more detailed and overall look
better as I had more time to carefully draw
them and they were still images.

4. This was the first time I had ever attempted to use
oil pastels. I think for a first time attempt I did an
ok job of this. This picture is a magnified picture of
a butterfly, focusing only on its wing, I feel I
managed to capture all the colour of the butterfly
but I don’t think I managed to tone it well.

5. This is my first watercolour study i did in a while, i feel i did ok on
this task as you can actually tell that the creatures in this picture
are beetles. I didnt really manage to capture the correct tone of
the colours on the creature, I either made it to dark or not dark
enough. I think as a drawing this could of been more of a success
and maybe if i practise more in watercolours i might be able to
get better.

6. This was a quick, rough drawing I did of a bird. I think
considering this was just a quick sketch I did a good job, I
wasn’t focusing on getting as much detail as possible I
was purely focusing on just sketching the bird.

7. This oil pastel study was in my opinion a success. I feel I
managed to get the tone of everything just about right. This
was the first of my figurative artists recreation. The original
image was by an artist named Steve Adams.

8. This is my second figurative artists recreation. I felt this
image looked best in watercolour. I think this image was
more of a success than my previous watercolour image
although I still failed to get the skin tone colour right I
think the rest of the image was good. The original image
was by an artist named Raymundo Andrade

9. This is the first life study I have done in a while, for this
task I had to focus in on one particular body part, and for
this image I decided on focusing on the upper body.
Although in the past my life studies weren't really that
good I feel I am starting to improve.

10. This image is the second of the life studies I have done
in my sketchbook this year, although incomplete as
the hands and feet were yet to be finished I feel this is
the best of my life studies I have done so far.