Faces: yourself and others
In the first half of the day we did several drawing exercises. I found these quite frustrating but at the same time very amusing because they look nothing like my subjects. Nevertheless, I don't think this was the point of the exercise. I found having to draw with my mouth the most challenging because I had never done it before whereas I had done the other methods previously. It also felt very unnatural to me but I liked it because it reminded me that not all artists have hands to paint/ draw with therefore it's possible to create something that looks equally as good regardless of whether you used your hands or mouth.
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| 1.Blind drawing of Gillian |
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| 2.Alternate hand drawing of Stephanie |
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| 3.Pen in mouth drawing of Sjassyria |
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| 4.Standing/continuous line drawing of myself (no mirror) |
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| 5. A1 drawing of Gillian's ear (20 mins) |
In the second half of the day I created my collage out of 3+ celebrities faces. I decided to include the main features of a usual face (excluding ears) I also decided to focus mostly on eyes as I think they are one of the most important features. I definitely agree with the saying "Your eyes are the windows to your soul" as I feel this is true emotionally. Our eyes give away a lot about us. In addition to this I incorporated elements of typography in the form of 2 e's (newspaper cut outs) to reflect/symbolise the eyes missing on the opposing side of the face. Initially I wasn't going to but I decided to include both male and female lips to give it a sense of gender ambiguity.
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| Collage |
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| Viewfinder |
Rather than using the viewfinder to choose one section of the face to draw, I decided to to choose 4 sections and do brief drawings of each, using different media in order to reflect the strangeness of the collage in general as each drawing looks completely unrelated to the other.
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