Ok so I'm trying to finish my art coursework at the moment, which I hope will all get finished in time, if not I won't be too happy, since this is my first piece of two. The whole thing looks like

Although this is a real old picture and it's finished looking now (must remember to take picture next week at school) The picture is a mix of oil pastels and acrylic on this wallpaper my art teacher bought me.

The top right corner of it is the piece I'm focusing on at the moment, I was given a piece of MDF and I'm now painting on it with oil paints, and so far it looks like.

And a close up on the pretty cool reflection.

And because my art teacher likes the way the reflection looks my final piece is now gonna be of.

Which will be fun I suppose, hope I'm able to do it all before the 8th of May.

Well Charlotte and I have recently been watching a variety of films, well more of catching up on watching some more Asian films it seems. Anywho we watched Gozu today...well that was yesterday now. But yeah, it's by Takashi Miike, the guy who brought us Ichi, Audition and Dead or Alive. From watching Audition and Ichi I didn't think his stuff was that well weird. Ok Ichi was a bit twisted, but not so weird that you thought that would never happen. But today I watched Gozu and I found that it was completely different to anything I'd watched before.

Being a Yakuza film I expected the usual action, gangs and gun fights etc, but I was surprised that it wasn't. I should of guessed since Miike doesn't seem to go with full on Yakuza, and there's usually a mix of S&M in it or something along those lines. At first I found the film funny...well actually things made me chuckle all through-out the film, I feel Asian cinema can do that with me. Weird that I can get an emotion out of a film when I don't speak the language...well in my eyes I find it hard to feel if an actor is bad or not in a foreign film as you can't relate so easily.

So um back on Gozu, I don't really wanna spoil the film for people, but hmm ok well I found the whole Kakihara and his modded mouth in Ichi weird but in this there was an owner of a cafe who was rather feminine, not in look but clothes, then a guy who thought Yakuza dogs and cars were out to get him. And of course you can't forget the guy with not enough pigment in his skin on one side of his face, or the creepy brother and sister who owned the hotel also involving breast milk...eww, oh yeah and the um person with the cow head....But the weirdest part has to be that I've never thought I'd see a woman give birth to a grown man...was a bit um weird to say the least. Was amusing when he came out and went pop .

I don't really wanna spoil the film though, I mean someone who reads this might wanna watch it, maybe. Hmm yeah Gozu, weird film, my post had a point but doesn't seem to clear, I hope people have a clue of what I'm going on about ^^.

Well I'm popping out so moo is gonna take my place, he loves computers ^^

Ok so it was the fourth session of life drawing, I was pretty pooped, but managed to survive. I've also done a few other sketches which I may put up on here later, or I could pop them on the forum ^^. Either way, it's naked lady time.

WARNING, WARNING, DANGER, DANGER, DO NOT LOOK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE NAKEDNESS!

First off Mr.Wadwell was busy with year 11's so he made one of the year 12's attempt to do the first bit. Which was ok I suppose I just drew, but you can't see them very well on the page as I used pencil and biro. They didn't turn out too great, but it was only my first pic of the night.

Next off he decided the model could have a break and made one of the annoying year 12's stand up and we had to draw her, which was um fun. I don't really like these pics that much, but they aren't crap.

Third we were asked to draw her in whatever media we wanted, I decided I'd have a go with watercolour as I hadn't done that before, and I really like how this turned out, it has a nice look to it. The darker bit was kind of a mistake, but I don't care .

Same with this image, cept there were no mistakes, I love the way the hair looks in contrast to the black outlined body, gives it a bit of an edge, I liked this one too .

Next we did a cover your page in charcoal and add in highlights with a rubber, this stuff is real fun, but also kinda messy, I really like the way this one turned out with the highlights in the hair.

We then did another study of it, I don't like this one as much as it was kinda rushed, as it took me about 5 minutes to cover the page in black was fun tho.

Overall life drawing was fun as always, and I've been getting practice on drawing figures from sketching random people, which is just as useful as life drawing to me really. I hope soon I'll of gotten a image in my head of how the human body looks correctly when it moves and such, and when that time comes I'll be able to draw from my imagination, which is fun.

More pics to come in the future .