Week 12

Week 12

19^th October – 23^rd October

This week I have been focusing on drawing and producing work, I had an idea of drawing my face for one minute every five minutes for an hour as this will push me out of my comfort zone. Having to draw a face in a minute is challenging, I wanted to see if I could still recognise myself in any of the drawings after the hour was up. The results were quite dull as I drew in pencil and the drawings all blended together.  The exercise is pretty good at generating work and especially for me as I get slowed down on details so having to get the whole face down in a minute was making my draw quickly. I then tried this exercise again but with colour and different thickness of pens. This time I reflected on my pencil drawing and extended my time limit to two minutes. This allowed me to get down twenty different expressions on the one sheet and I really like the outcome of this piece. Some of the drawings were recognisable and some were very distorted and unrecognizable. It was an interesting idea that my face over and over again is then nothing but a mess of lines, although with the colour it added depth and separated the faces out successfully. I could have definitely developed that drawing into a print pattern and could use other people as inspiration in the series.