Saturday, 21 January 2017

I did a charcoal drawing from this photograph and then I decided I wanted to do something interesting with the photograph itself. I then had the idea of cutting out a circle and then cutting it into smaller and smaller circles and to slightly rotate each one. I did this and found I really liked doing this creative process and wanted to continue it so I moved away from my figurative drawing to continue experimenting in this style. I felt as though this experiment would perhaps have been better on a larger scale and if there was not as much of a white space between each circle.



This is a black and white photocopy of the piece. I did this so I could see what it would look like if I just focused on the tone. I feel as though I like it in black and white but I also like the coloured version. Both pieces have different qualities to them, it appears that the black and white composition stands out more however I also like the subtlety of the movement in the coloured piece. The white gaps stand out more in this piece because there is more contrast with the white underneath and the darker tones in the image.



This is the charcoal drawing I did of the photograph on the previous slide. I used compressed charcoal and white chalk to create the contrast between the tones of the hair and the shading of the face. Whilst I liked the drawing, I wasn’t entirely happy with it the way it was and didn’t want to just leave it as a drawing so I decided to cut it up in the same style as I did previously with the actual photograph.









Here is the finished piece of the charcoal drawing combined with the paper-cutting. I thought that this composition was really successful as the ‘illusion’ in the drawing is very subtle as opposed to being very chaotic which I think worked really well.

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