I think everyone has made a good start during the first two weeks of the course. Good work everyone. Just to recap on what I was saying in class, during my journey as an illustrator I discovered that one of the best ways to capture the dynamics and energy of of movement is to study your subject matter in action, whether it be human or animal. If the subject matter is not easily accessible at first hand, try and source recorded material whether it be on film (dvd,blueray or whatever) or youtube. These days you are able to access most reference material. All that is left for you to do is to study and apply it to your work.

For those who may want octopus footage (without having to look for it) here are a couple of clips.

and as the top half of the drawing , for the first exercise, is human , I thought you might like to study these clips.

Emma, in answer to you question about your achitectural work, Have a look at Ken Adam's work. He's a very prominent set designer for the film industry, responsible for the impressive sets for the early Bond films and Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

Thunderball

You Only Live Twice

Goldfinger

Stromberg's floating island/hideout in The Spy Who Loved Me

You may be able to track this book down,

Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond

Here are some links to blogs and sites that display Adam's work

http://filmsketchr.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/warp-back-in-time-to-lost-star-trek.html#.Uk2Ce9KTiSo

http://one1more2time3.wordpress.com/tag/ken-adam/

http://creativemindsnitc.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/shilpa-s-babu-b050417ar-ken-adam-and-gurjeet-singh/

http://www.ikono.org/2012/11/designing-the-movies-a-profile-of-sir-ken-adam/

Also, have a look at the sketch book drawings in my facebook album,

THE LITTLE BLACK (SKETCH) BOOK

www.facebook.com/steve.beaumont.777

Look at using solids to isolate and draw attention to your main point of interest.

ARTIST OF THE WEEK
Check out Simone Biachi
http://www.simonebianchi.com/uk/index.php

Some homework for next week. Watch some youtue videos of live rock music. Take not of how the instruments are played and the movement and swagger of the musician.

Here are a couple of examples.