This short trip to the library opened me up to multiple books which involved anatomy and the human form which is what inspired me further to stick with the theme I had chosen for previous projects.

Process:

For this final outcome I was inspired by the aspect of the feeling you get when you first meet someone and how you can be taken aback by their beauty, which is something that many might think as shallow at first but dismiss to realise that sometimes it’s a very important factor because what we perceive as “attractive” will naturally draw us in even if it’s once we get to know those people is when that beauty can grow or crumble, depending on the experience. But it’s the initial glance that does subconsciously make us take the decision to approach the person.

I used acrylic paint and a semi-realistic approach, with rough brush stroke technique to this pice instead of focusing too much on perfectionism like I would normally with a painting. I’m pleased on how it turned out because the tones make the face ‘dreamy-like’ which is exactly what I wanted to convey.

Although, if I were to do it again I’d try to make some of the facial features more proportionate, as at the moment it’s quite asymmetrical and being the artist who painted it, I can notice the slight mistakes which are a little off putting.

Collage :

I got inspired to do this piece after judging my experiences that I’ve had with people so far while living at university and experiencing the ‘uni life’ so far.

Gathering all the possible things together from a magazine that I actually was given at a uni-freshers event. Thus included partying, dancing with friends  but also feeling slightly watched and at times having to deal with loneliness and the imposter syndrome.

Overall, I enjoyed putting this composition together however I would have possibly added more text into this piece of work.

Practice 20 min sketches to warm up wrist :

The sketching process :

This first draft of a sketch took around two minutes and this is probably one of the most crucial times I find when starting any piece and especially a drawing. It allowed me to set the main composition of the subject and the proportions so the subject would fit ell within the A4 paper size I used.

The drawing process :

As for the actual drawing process I found that in between the halfway point I had lost motivation and sense of direction where this drawing was going towards.  Although I kept with it as I love using pencil as my main source of medium and didn’t give up like I normally would and even though I’m not exactly thrilled to have created it as I could have done better, I’m still glad I did because I realised that it still matched my themes and portrayed the stressful and intoxicating feel people can have on you that I wanted it to have.

Extra practice before the actual drawing :

This five minute practice just before starting with the actual drawing was used for me as a warm up because I hadn’t drawn all day and felt like I had been quite stiff if I simply thrown myself straight into the drawing process.

My experience and overall pieces produced :

During this workshop I was taken aback at how much I learned even though I had used photoshop quite a lot throughout my school years in the photography course.

The most interesting aspect was the clipping effect which I learned was a technique to be able to merge a photo within a shape which I didn’t know before and was very eye opening because it opens so many possibilities, especially when it comes to creating something digital that looks like a print and can also be made to come across as if it was made manually with the right effects.

On the left is actually my second attempt at creating a digital print and it’s my favourite out of the two I created, mainly due to its composition, it reminded me of the times I would spend creating junk journaling layouts in my journal, using whatever I had collected at hand.

Overall a very interesting experience and an unusual change to what I normally like doing, as an artist I used to find it quite intimidating to change my usual manual way of doing art to digital.

As a whole this process was very new to me so I was slightly skeptical of how I would feel by the end. Having gone throat with it now I can say it was not what I expected and I would very much enjoy to produce more work like this because it’s something that lets me experiment and be messy with art which I used to never do before, and it even lets me use colour within my art with less stress; as I found whatever shade or colour you mix, it’s likely that the outcome will come out with something interesting and that you’ll be pleased with. In this case I chose the ribcage as I didn’t want to overcomplicate my process as a beginner.

Something that surprise me was how quick some of the steps to create these prints were and even though I like taking my time with art a lot of the times it was a nice change to my usual speed and made the creativity in the room flow much better.

Partner collar print outcome :

Corrupted stencil and print process :

Unfortunately with this last print I accidentally managed to misplace my stencil and it resulted into a slightly cut off rib and uneven layout. Although at first I didn’t exactly notice this, meaning at first glance it’s not something anyone would notice unless I were to point it out in front of them. I do believe it gives character to the print and I really liked the process of mixing the black and white ink together to create a marbly effect.

Relief printing on A4 card :

When starting this experiment I didn’t have many ideas as to where I wanted to go with the end result which is something I took from the previous project when building my 3D model. The idea of just taking a pencil and beginning was the most exciting this time and I found it a lot more enjoyable, knowing I also had previous thumbnails to look back on which definitely inspired this print after all.

I would have preferred to add more spiders if I were to re-do this specific layout as I very much liked the way the skeleton gives the whole pice an oomph. The rectangles I decided to add to the background were something I thought of last minute which worked out quite well in bringing the whole piece into a unit other than just a few objects floating on a flat surface.

Outcomes :

I would have definitely benefited from adding more ink to the paper as the final prints were looking slightly discoloured, however I think that effect does add to the creepiness I wanted the print to have which worked in my favour even though at first glance I thought of it as a mistake.

Mono printing on A3 paper :

Being completely honest with myself I never liked the process of mono printing simply because it always ended up being messy; although through mimicking the same composition as my last relief print I found that I was able to be a lot more variable with the mark making I was drawing.

The end result wasn’t my best but I as impressed at myself at how closely accurate I was wit the composition, considering the fact I tried hard not to touch the paper with my hand in the process to avoid as little smudging as possible and I was glad I even managed t0 add some tone to one of the squares even though next time I would have added another, possibly in the top or middle tomato the objects pop out more and make the whole piece more balanced.

I thought the colour I chose was also very fitting because it gave the objects the bloody atmosphere my 3d model was originally supposed to have, and I can appreciate the morbid feel to it.