Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Annotations 29/9/15 - 30/9/15

My first drawing in the sketch book is of the Tunisian terror attacker. I have chosen just to do the out line of the person because of my artist Giovani Batista. I really like it as the pencil drawing in the background and the fine liner over the top I feel works the best because it pops off of the page because the sketch style lines over the top repeatedly an I feel makes the piece has a 3D style to the piece. The original picture that I am drawing this from is from google images.
My second sketch is done with charcoal and is of the same person and the same style of artist. I like this sketch in a number of different ways, the main way is the way that the compressed charcoal pulls the out side and the detail of the person in the picture. I used the whit compressed charcoal to lighted the main parts of the clothing to enhance and distinguish the outline of the person. The next piece on the other page is a by product of the charcoal drawing and the pen drawing on the other side. This is not my favourite of my drawings but I do quite like it as it is totally different to all of the other drawings. The reason why the blue ink from the pen has come through is because of the hairspray that I used on the charcoal with the print, I feel that because it has come through on this side makes the piece better as it highlights and distinguishes parts of the piece that makes the sketch have a shadow and you could say that it comes alive due to this.
The next piece that I have done is a drawing of the same person with a fine liner. I don't particularly like this piece because the lines are quite thick due to the hairspray that I used on the other piece as the hairspray has made the ink in the pen run and smudge which hasn't worked but on parts where the ink hasn't run it has worked really well and I feel would of really work and I wish it didn't run because I feel that It would have been one of my favourite pieces. The fourth piece that I have done is with spray paint because of my main focus artist Banksy. I have used the same person for the stencil that the drawings are done with as I feel that it really works and is quite meaningful also because of the way that the stencil has not given the person an identity an this I feel will give the piece more of a meaning. I drew over the spray paint with a ball point pen because I really enjoyed doing the drawings of the person and I feel will work. When I sprayed the stencil I missed the gun that he is holding out because I feel that if I draw the gun it will cannot more of a meaning because the person looking at it will know exactly what the person is holding and will have ideas about what this person is or what this person is doing. The red spray paint in the background of the piece is the over pray from the piece on the other side and I feel adds to this piece as it is a brighter colour and shows the two sides of this person that I am trying to portray. This piece is my favourite so far but I feel that there is so much going on in the piece that the meaning is not getting across as well as I thought it would with the spray paint, this maybe due to the use of black spray paint as you can't see the sketching of the person as hasn't come through because the pen and the paint are the same colour.
The next piece is the red spray paint of the same terrorist. The reason that I have done this piece is because I didn't really like the black piece on the other side because of the colour of the paint as it was the same colour as the pen. I am going do this the same but I don't feel that the meaning will come across well because the colour black canoes evil which I want portray this person as. I do quite like the piece though because I can see the sketching of the person an i feel that some of the meaning has come across but I don't feel that it has worked because I can see too much of the sketch and due to this I feel that it has lost some of the meaning. I do really like the mist with the overspray of the spray paint and I feel that the gun part of the with the overspray and the sketching gives a lot of meaning to the piece as you can see the gun clearly in the piece and due to it being red I feel that it connotes danger. Personally I really like the other piece with the black sorry pain and that the meaning is better because you can't see and detail of the persons features or identity so I am going to do another piece like this red one with the overspray as I feel that it will work well.