You can tell a lot about someone by their face.
Facial expressions and shapes within the face help to build a strong narrative, adding to the connection between a work and the viewer. Sometimes this link is explicit, for example in a piece of art showing clear emotion, but what about when the face is distorted or overlapped?
One of the things I took from the Aspect Lecture on space was the importance of the viewer having to work to understand what is exactly going on, letting them form their own ideas and opinions surrounding the work.
To help me with my technical drawing skills I asked people I knew to send me photos of their face- which I then drew and developed using different materials.
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| Hannah, Acrylic Paint |
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| Ellie, Fine Liner |
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| Jay, Charcoal Pencil |
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| Leah, 2B Pencil |
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| Poppy, Charcoal |
I then used Photoshop Elements to overlap and manipulate the images digitally. These were the results-
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| A practise attempt at making a digital collage of faces |
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A second attempt at the collage
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Final attempt at overlaying drawings of people- changing the
opacity allowed me to create a better 'flow' of the collage |
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