Approaches to Drawing

Within this workshop, I looked at different methods of drawing, aiming to give me other ways of drawing that I don't usually do. 

This first drawing was produced after reading a description of a creature with speckled skin, a horn in the centre of its face and armour all over its body. I imagined an animal like a sabre tooth tiger but with armoured plates over its back, prowling through snow.

The description was in fact about a rhino, the same description used for Dürer's Rhinoceros. I searched for a reference image of a rhino and drew form that. This is the usual method that I use so this approach came much more natural to me.

This version was completely from memory and, surprising myself, it actually resulted in a drawing with a not too dissimilar outcome to the picture where I did use a reference. I think that from looking at the reference images of the rhino, I was able to take in a lot of information about the lines and shapes of the rhino in order to form an image of my own from my own memory. This is definitely a good way to be able to draw my own poses and gestures of characters in the future as I'll get better at remembering forms without having to find a reference image.