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REALITY

I wanted this shoot to be very natural and raw to show the real her. You can see the unmade bed and most of her skin showing. I feel by doing this, it shows not everybody is perfect.

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CRAYONS

Experimenting with crayons inspired by Joe Cruz. I wanted to express how you can change by doing different things to your face/body.

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DRAWING ON PHOTOSHOP

By using my own photos, I thought drawing in different colours was an interesting idea as it gives a different mood to each drawing, linking back to identity, whether they look the same or whether the drawing suggests a deeper meaning into how their feeling.

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EXPERIMENTING WITH PHOTOSHOP

Experimenting on Photoshop, this was actually an accident as I came across the ‘magic eraser’ tool. This made the opposite happen, where the background blended into their faces and tops, wherever you clicked on. This was to play around with the idea of identity and taking and adding certain features.

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CONTRAST

I then decided to do a contrasting shoot, to the makeup shoot. This was to show that there can be two different sides to people.

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DRAMA

Putting makeup on Jordan to emphasise that some people like to escape through the use of makeup e.g. drag queens. The dramatic poses show that he is loving himself and so should everybody else.

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GEL LIGHTS

Taking inspiration from Petra Collins, using gel lights. The gel lights make the photo have a different tone to normal lighting. The photos with both Helly and Elliott in I wanted to make them look similar to explain that anybody can have the same identity but still be a different person on the inside so […]

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DRAWING WITH PHIL

The drawing classes with Phil has taught me various different ways to draw and how to use different techniques to make your work more interesting, ranging from blind drawing, partial peek drawing and gesture drawing. We also didn’t just use pencil to draw with, we used pen, ink, coloured pencil and graphite stick. These classes […]

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