Experimental drawings

After studying the sounds we were provided with, I carried out some experimental drawings with a mixture of medias in order to get a better idea of which sounds I would want to focus on for my larger drawings and final animations. I was surprised at how difficult I found this task, I had to listen to some of the sounds multiple times to try and visualise the noise in my head.

The popping sort of sounds kept bringing images of bubble like shapes to my head, so I used acrylic to put this down on paper. It was really enjoyable to simply paint since I haven't done that properly in a long time. 

For the drip like sounds I couldn't help but think if the obvious, I thought the use of charcoal would show more variation instead of everything being in bright colours. I have always loved using charcoal because I find it really easy to work with, being able to go from one extreme of darkness to light makes everything that bit more effective. 

I noticed that some of the sounds were quite gradual and either died down or built up. On the other hand some of them were very static and didn't really change much, so whilst listening to them I scribbled some patterns down to see what came to mind. 

Final Large Drawing 

I knew I wanted one of my animations to entail some serious scribbling so for this one I just went with the flow using felt pen.