Visual Language Study Task 3 - Line and Mark

For the third visual language study task, I have chosen the subject of the Galapagos Islands. 

Here are some drawings of Lonesome George I've done in response to the subject. I've tried to use different media in different ways, but all focusing on line and mark making. 

For the red ink drawings, I tried to be a lot more loose about them, deciding to go straight in with the ink rather than drawing in pencil first. I feel that these images have a nice fluidity about them which works well with the media. 

The more controlled drawing in which I inked everything except for the lines of the tortoises also turned out quite well and is probably an approach that would be worth trying again in order to get an even more successful and tidier outcome.

 

Some more experiments with line and mark, I think that using a flat edged brush worked well for the gouache drawings and gave them a very quick but tidy finish with the straight lines.

The dotty drawings also turned out well but were quite time consuming.