Saturday 10 October 2015

Yet another drawing game

As the homework for  Introduction to Game Design Coursera course I adapted my first drawing game to be a two-player game.
You and another candidate are trying to join the Graffiti101 class.
You have a canvas of an A4 piece of paper.  If you don't have a die to hand go to https://www.random.org/dice/
You may have to compete or collaborate with this other person and you take turns to play. You get 5 marks each in total to make your drawing and incorporate the other player's 5 marks into your drawings as well.

But first, you have to know what you are each going to draw? Throw a die each.
Die roll
1
2
3
4
5
6
Player 1
Person
Person
Vehicle
Vehicle
Building
Building
Player 2
Person
Vehicle
Building
Vehicle
Person
Building



For each turn you make depending on your score – draw the mark in the canvas incorporating the other player's marks.
Die roll
1
2
3
4
5
6
Draw:
Line
Square
Triangle
Circle
Dot
Squiggle



Drawings of #rdguk architecture

It is Architecture Drawing Day by RIBA and @thebigdraw
I thought I'd do a roundup of some Reading drawings I have made over the past year or two.

The bank at Market Place

The George Inn


The Blade

A house in Reading

Market place

Oxfam bookshop back when it was blue

Reading weir


Demolition crane

National savings bank

Church in St Mary's butts

Peeping into Caversham Court Gardens

Day when a bus stop arrived in Market Place

Rising sun arts centre

Market Place

Pau Brasil

Reading from the car park

Doorway

Building no more 

Building in Reading

Outside St Laurence

Broad Street

Sunday 4 October 2015

I made a drawing game

As part of the Introduction to Game Design Coursera course, I made up a couple of games. This one is a drawing game.

Cavepainting-101 It is pre-historic times - you are at an interview for the guild of cave-painters and are very nervous. You have been left alone and asked to use no more than 10 marks to draw a representation of a person before the angry-looking boss Thugg comes back to decide if you are good enough.
You really want this job because the other option is hunting animals and you don't know anyone who didn't get hurt doing that. Besides you really want to spend time with your new friend Rakelle who already works there and told you about this opportunity as she also really wants to hang out with you.
Rakelle prepared you for the interview. She gave you a six sided die and told you to throw it 10 times. ( I know what you're thinking – how does she have a die? Well, duh, she's from the future and showed you dice, how to count and how to draw basic shapes. Hopefully, she will teach you even more including time-travel if you get the job.)

Concentrate! Back to the interview:
She said, for each mark you make (you only have ten)

  • if you roll a 1 – then draw a line 
  •  If you roll a 2 – then draw a square shape
  • if you roll a 3 – then draw a triangle shape
  • if you roll a 4 – then draw a circle
  • if you roll a 5 – then draw a dot
  • if you roll a 6 – then draw a squiggle.
Hurry now! Before the boss gets back.

Throw the die, draw the shape suggested by the die and throw it again for the next mark – aiming for a person-like drawing in 10 moves. If you don't have a die to hand go to https://www.random.org/dice/ 

Hope you get the job and learn lots with Rakelle.


Here's my masterpiece - did I get the job? Want to apply yourself? Then submit your drawing.



Monday 6 July 2015

Taking part in the Open Air Art Challenge for #openforart #rdguk

To sit on a Sunday morning on a pedestrianised main street where all the shoppers hang out and take part in an art challenge seemed terrifying. So I signed up.


Artists taking part would have 3 hours to produce work and have a public vote to decide the winner. This was just one event in Reading's Open for Art weekend.

The atmosphere was great and I sat and did 4 sketches inspired by the people I was watching over the 3 hours whilst others drew, painted, made mobiles, used ipads, and created work from the plastic strips one finds tying printer papers together. The volunteers were friendly and lovely.

People waiting for shops to open

A fellow artist

View of the Blade

Volunteers at the event

We had to display our work for public though throughout people would watch, gather around and sometimes speak to the artists. The thought is scary but the conversations are always encouraging. 
Displays of work for voting.


The winner was announced as Hillary James who did a large painting of the surrounds and captured a real sense of the street.

Was it worth it? Yes, as the thought of doing something similar will be a little less terrifying next time.




Saturday 21 March 2015

Sketches.




Responding to requests

Einstein in a fairground. JP

Midnight feast trying to decide between Facebook,  dvd or book. LSL

Food fads. BV.

Group pillow fight. LSL

Badger being attacked by Oxygen. MP

Saturday 7 March 2015

Request roundup

My favourite fun exercise is to be open to requests from people. It is very amusing to see people pushing me as well as each other to draw subjects I would never have done myself. AND laugh.
Am not really a fan of animals (apart from eating them) but animals seem to be a popular topic. 

Here's a roundup of recent fun requests 
"My dog on the moon"

"rockband on tour"

"Trojan horse"

"Chess pieces come to life and fighting each other with swords and fun stuff"

"A happy cow eating flowers gingerly"

"My daughter turning into a rabbit and jumping over a fence being chased by the dog who is turning into a bear"

"Walrus on a bike (with a bell) being stopped by a lollipop lady/man even though there is no one on the crossing"

An astronaut bunny taking tea with aliens

A sportscar going up a mountain with a dumper truck

A flamenco dancer in a supermarket

A card for a baby girl

Card for a new born baby girl v2