Priley Riley, Ear studies 3, 20th February 2014

These pencil studies are of my family’s ears (the top left is my brother’s, top right my dad’s, bottom left my sister’s, and bottom right my mum’s).

Priley Riley, Life drawing, 19th February 2014

As well as doing bookbinding today I went to a 4 hour life drawing class. The model was the same as the one that I had on the 15^th of January, although the model’s poses were all different. The drawings shown above are all from 15 minute poses and they are in pencil in my current sketchbook.

Priley Riley, Bookbinding, 19th February 2014

I was shown different methods of bookbinding today and chose to try a method myself called Japanese bookbinding. I chose this method over the others simply because I think that the outcome looks the nicest. I found bookbinding an enjoyable process although it was very long; I spent around 4 hours in total making my new sketchbook because I had to pierce several holes in every piece of paper in the book and make sure that the holes were in exactly the same places on every page so that the alignment of the pages was correct. I pierced just 2 pages at a time so that the piercings were neat. I then used the holes to sew the book together. Once I had sewn the book, I finished off by using two of the holes to decorate the book with ribbon. I intend on trying papermaking this month and once I have done this I will bind this into a book so that the resulting sketchbook will be one that I made from scratch.

Priley Riley, Ear studies 2, 18th February 2014

Although I am happy with my drawings in the post Ear studies 1, I don’t think that the ears work as well on their own as the other facial features do. For my second studies of ears I have added part of the head around the ears to get around this problem. The drawings that I have done this time are in pencil in my sketchbook, and I worked from photos of my fiancé's ears for them.

Priley Riley, Monoprints, 17th February 2014

I decided to develop three of my sketchbook drawings by using the subjects of them for monoprints. Monoprinting is a process where a thin layer of printing ink is rolled out, paper is placed over the top, and then you draw onto the paper. Once your drawing is finished you peel the paper off and your print is on the reverse. I used the drawings from my posts Eye studies 2, Drawing of an enthusiastic lecturer and Drawings from the art department for these prints.