Class project

In class, we were asked to draw one of our classmates and create a large wall mural.  We started working in pairs,  drawing the other person on acetate.  We then projected the image from a4 onto an a3 size piece of paper. We used our own style to colour or paint each figure then cut them out. I used pastels and pencils for mine as I was hoping to use shading and a wide colours to produce a realistic effect. We worked very well as a team as we decided on what background we were going to do. We thought about composition when placing the people on the background, as some were smaller than others. We all took part to do our own thing and each added a handprint for the tree. I helped collect leaves for the tree and was to decorate the sky, for this I used 3 shades of blue and used white to emphasise the rays of the sun and the clouds.  I also documented everything we done along the way and this is what we came up with...