ILLUSTRATIONS AND EDITS – WEEK 7
As the previous collages contained slight elements of drawing which incorporated a more illustrative effect within the visuals and therefore some more substance to my work, I decided to create some light-hearted doodles and add these as part of my new experimentation with my work. The doodle shown below were observational hand drawings of my face in motion, I did continuous line drawings while not taking my eye off the page, I believe this creates a more interesting image, lines are not perfect and the visuals do not look entirely accurate, but this technique allows me to focus further on the shapes in the face which I am identifying through line, this is done as my eyes are focusing on my face and the details while drawing, rather than how it looks on the page creating a more dynamic result. I have done these type of quick drawings for a while as I feel as if they always have exciting outcomes, I would love to use one of them as a starting point to a more fully thought out illustration, one that has had more time to consider the details or what this could potentially transform into further, or one that has been created digitally. This is reminiscent of the exercises we would have to do on my Art Foundation in Fashion Promotion, and would always make me create something more unique than if I were to start off with a super realistic drawing. We would have to use different pen thickness, two pens at one, focus on drawing the person in front of you, drawing only a small section but enlarged on the page etc. As classes have been online mainly, I haven’t been been into the studio once yet, I feel as if I am missing all of these types of warm up activities that we would do at university to get our creative minds working. As a result this makes me want to incorporate these far more into my everyday creative practice, I may start a smaller sketchbook for drawing/collage activities using prompts from artists online or start challenges like 30 days of font or 30 days of drawing as this would eventually increase my skill and ability to get used to the idea of making content daily.
The second illustration shows another observational drawing, which I have found to be good ways of collecting primary research and will therefore need to elaborate on this in the future of this project and do more observational drawings of different things around me, of my face or of mine and other people’s bodies. This is a slightly higher realistic quality of the first one, while still have the surreal element by layering the images together with the same amount of tone so they make one singular image composed of two different drawings. I found that sketching and shading made my imagery look slightly more realistic, if I wanted to aim for that style again then I will know that I will need to incorporate some type of shading in there otherwise it could be left too flat and one dimensional.
The digitally altered collages above are both visually pleasing and visually displeasing in my eyes, as I like some of them but feel as if others are weak. This is due to potentially the colours in conjunction with using illustration on top of a blurred filter, allowing the two elements to become more separated and seen as two different parts of the picture rather than as a whole collaborative composition. The layout and composition of the next two are effective as there is space around the page for breathing, white space, and this is organised in a way where it’s easy to dissect what is going on in the image separately, while also have the whole thing compliment each other and look like one whole piece, which the second image lacks.
