The inspiration for my drawing project this term started
with looking at people's movement in different situation that they didn't
realise that they are being watched and photographed. I started by taking a
series of photograph in busy places at the same position to track peoples
movements. From these I did very quick drawings keeping something's constant in
the pictures and the movement in the figures. I did these on a small scale but
kept the figures constant, the drawings had a ghostly feel to them as I have
drawn them on tracing paper and have then layered them on top of each other.
I have then developed and experimented with the different
media such as charcoal and inks to see what worked best and to give me a spring
board on what way to take my project. I
decided to go with a simple figure that always worked on the same scale in
relation to the paper it because it looked quite powerful and bold, but it had
no sole and feelings to it. This was something that occurred to me when I was
taking the photographs even though all these people look normal, but very
different I knew nothing about their lives or how they were feeling. Everyone
in the photographs had a generic walking face.
This was something that I wanted to show in my work so I
started shading in the figure that I had developed several times a day
depending how I was feeling. This worked well so I decided to do some large
scale works. For my final development I have drawn out fifty figures and have
passed them around different places such as my flat, studio, work and home to
get people to shade them in depending how they are feeling. The drawings that I
received back where all really interesting and varied and truly reflects what
people are feeling. Throughout the project I have been heavily influenced by
Henri Michaux and Ellen Gallagher because of their use of tone and shape, but
also the ideas behind them
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