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Isolated Man, Pencil and Coloured Pencil
Here is a depiction of a gent that caught my eye whilst I was inside The Playhouse, enjoying a coffee with others. I look outside and there is this figure, all alone and in a world of his own, reading the newspaper. I thought this was very interesting and rather theatrical so I had to depict this scene that I saw. I went with the circle layout again because I still find it interesting after my self portrait. I also used mixed media for this piece, pencil and colour pencil. I coloured the figure in first and thought mid way that it may be interesting to try making the background dark by the use of a HB pencil. I thought this would contrast well with the isolated man and make it portray more that he is alone.
If I could improve on this, I’d work on the figure’s jacket a tad more because I’m not sure about it currently. I might also make the background completely black byt the use of charcoal or black ink.
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This term has been very eventful. I’ve been placed in a group to do an exhibition for our BA3 work and I was rather worried at what I’d do because of my work being different from everyone else’s in my group. This is because I have been obsessed with doing social settings and falling in love with coloured pencils. I have never been so comfortable with a medium, I always went from pencil and soft pastel. But now, I’m happy with a medium and feel I could form anything because of it feeling so natural.
Anyway, I went back to my family in the Easter break to relax and refresh my mind for this group project because I was stressing over it so much. This is when it came to me. I watch a lot of news online because it’s a very easy source to catch up with everyday events and my father was sat there reading from The Times and I noticed how much negativity the media feeds on, to scare the public. This is when I came up with doing something news related. This is where i formed my “Shitty People” postcards. I drew out these figures from recent news articles from 2013 and ended up with 30 of them, varying in recognizable figures and people who will probably never be shown again. It interested me that there was more negative than positive. So, this was my final outcome for the exhibition and I was happy. I got a lot of good feedback from this piece which was nice because it wasn’t really a stressful piece, apart from drawing some horrible people.
When it came to our group presentation, I was rather shakey when taking about my work. I don’t feel I explained it well enough. This may be because I had only recently finished the postcards ad didn’t have enough time to come up with a more detailed concept of why I did it, even though it had high praise. I need to think of what makes them interesting and how my interpretation makes the viewer feel.
When it came to my one to one tutorial, I got good feedback for the media postcard. I should and will do more of them. I will also test our my idea of using coloured pencil to see if they become more interesting. I believe they will become more similar to everyday postcards, which is what I want. I also need to learn to be more self-analytical of my work. I need to think about what my work does and how so. Overall, I need to reflect more.
I still social setting pieces because I enjoy doing so but that might be because of my upcoming exhibition in Lincoln with my friend Aubrey, at St. Martins’ gallery. This should be open on the 24th of June and should be good for me. I’ll become more comfortable with the public asking me about my work and this should help me getting over shakes.
Self Portrait, Coloured Pencil
Here it is, my face for all to see in my artistic ways. I started it today and it was rather entertaining drawing my face. This is an image of me in my local coffee shop back in lincoln, Coffee Aroma. I went with coloured pencil because that is the medium I have become most comfortable with and I thought that to be important when portraying myself. I also went with a circular frame instead of your standard portrait format. I did this because I was recently at my friend, Tim Kloed’s home. He’s an Illustrator and I came across some of his pieces which depicted children in these circles. I found them really interesting so I thought I’d give it a go. I like how mellow I look and how it has become this fancy portrait that I can see being in the renaissance era. I like this circle pieces, I think they work rather well and I could extend it with more scenes.
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