Early Drawing Sketchbook (over the summer and first 2 weeks)

The early parts of my drawing sketchbook I really dislike some of them not only because I dislike drawing but also because I feel that as a start to my A2 year they really don't show off what I can do and that I had fallen back into my old drawing habits of harsh bold lines followed by bold harsh shading, however there are some pages I like and feel are successful but over the year I will come back and refine them pages that I don't like and think can be better. 

This page of my first sketchbook of my A2 year I am really happy with I feel that going for a complicated shape picked from my first artist Machowski's work paid off and I finished off the page by adding leaves collaged on top of each other as I decided to go out and show that this type of shape could be found in nature by going out and cutting leaves up and layering them which is what I did when sticking the leaves down not only to add texture an area that I am very comfortable in but to show how and why I then went on to draw leaves.

 As the second page in my sketchbook I am also very happy with this page, the drawing on the top having gone for a delicate pencil drawing and again collaged leaves directly over the top of the drawing matching the veins of the leaves up with some of the lines in the drawing to have this feeling of flow as your eyes move outward of the drawing. The drawing at the bottom of the page is a charcoal drawing and in my opinion the second best drawing I have done up to this point in the year, I just like how I could do it really expressively and I was super proud of myself for sitting down and concentrating on what I saw and drawing it and I also like the shading and this drawing I feel is better than about 90% of the drawings I did last year.

 The third page in my drawing sketchbook I am also happy with as the top drawing I did with pencil again a medium that I am very uncomfortable with and I struggle so for this drawing to turn out how it did I am super happy with it and hope that I can continue this level of drawing I have started this year off with. I also decided to put leaves over the top of certain sections of the drawings and match the veins up with the drawing to again provide flow for the drawing but also as I covered the leaf in glue it made it go slightly transparent and showed the marks underneath which I thought was a really good effect and added a level of subtlety to my drawings which they'd never had. The drawing underneath this drawing is a charcoal drawing and in my opinion is the best drawing I have done so far in my entire A level art course this year and last year and I like it so much because I feel while it is figurative as it is clearly a leaf the shading and the different tones I managed to achieve with the charcoal I feel really emphasises the softness of a leaf and how fragile it is and I feel this drawing generally works well all round.

 After my really confident start I decided to draw something bigger and more interesting that is related to leaves but allowed for more diversity in my drawings later on. So I decided to go for a tree stump that was sticking out of the floor at an unusual angle. However this is where my drawing slips a bit and falls down the white cliffs of dover into the sea, I have no idea why when drawing this I didn't pay more attention to the shape and form of the object and instead ended up with a drawing which I feel has ruined my start to my year and has knocked my confidence massively and has made me want to start from square 1 again. To cover up and try to make a more abstract drawing I decided to then do a tree rubbing of the stump to add more interesting marks and change the piece and it's composition entirely, I am however still not happy with this drawing and later on in the course when I have some spare time while waiting for some work to dry, I'll go back and paint over this drawing and start again and continue with some smaller leaf studies. The two pictures under this are also studies of larger objects which when looking back at them I am equally dissatisfied with the way they look and will go back and paint over these drawings and do some smaller leaf studies to not only help the flow of my sketchbook but also to really show off how much my drawing has come on from when I first did and show the examiner what I can do and how well I can do it rather than present half-attempted drawings that I really am not happy with.