Develop a broad and exploratory range of visual responses, media investigation and thematic drawing based on the initial research into your chosen author. You will need to expand on your summer brief in order to develop a body of visual starting points for the practical and conceptual investigation of your ideas.. These visual responses should focus on :
(a) The "tangible”: The physical world around you such as character,locations, motifs, objects, people and those aspects of the world that you can visually evidence through drawing, media and visual language.
(b) The “intangible”: The unseen, emotional and conceptual phenomena that affect the way we see the world such as moods, atmosphere, humour, fear, touch, smell and sound.
You will then find ways for the tangible and intangible to collide. This on-going imagery production will then continue to feed appropriate and well-researched content for development of practice for Studio Briefs 2 and 3. Making informed, yet also exploratory connections between these briefs is encouraged.
Through on-going independent visual responses in drawing / making and supported studio drawing sessions, the aim is for you to generate a wealth of visual material, rich in potential concept, visually diverse and exciting, enhancing the content of your imagery production in the related briefs 2 and 3.
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I then selected 3 of the motifs relating to Shakespeare's work:
I used 3 pens to create a directory of lines in my sketchbook:
Using this directory of lines I then created a set of drawings of my chosen motifs, using a single or mixture of this variation of lines, this helped me to understand the effect of line quality on meaning and effect on the illustration:
I chose to use ears/hearing, skulls, and poison/love potion as my motifs. For the work below I chose to change the ear/hearing (from Hamlet) to thumb-biting (from Romeo and Juliet) as I felt this image would be more interesting to work with and bring more atmosphere to the image.
I created 4 landscape compositions using a range of line work for each as well as exploring with boldness:
First I used shape to represent these, using negative shape for one, keeping in mind the integrity of the edges;
Then I chose paper to represent the motifs in a background, mid-ground and foreground layout;
Next I selected 1 of the motifs to add some level of complexity to by adding collage, a combination of shapes and tones to represent it;
TO DO: Make different ways to present 1 motif using lines and collage.
PEER REVIEW (above)
Aesthetics
- Takes colour from the collage and uses responding colour choices.
- Varied mix of pens and media integrate well.
- Collage used very successfully for definition.
- Good use of frame and filling a page.
- Varying thickness of line.
- Really nice continuation of collage shapes drawn in.
- Varying scales - great exploration.
Improvements
- To include intangible, perhaps use collage to represent the scale - show undercurrents of the mood/atmosphere.
- Try drawing and collage to convey two different things - murder vs romance.
- Layers - photoshop!
Motif
- Motif is relevent to theme, and conveys a sense of lust and other such emotions often found in Shakespeare's plays.
- Symbolic imagery from Romeo and Juliet.
General Comments
- Picasso
- Research artists in Journal.
PEER FEEDBACK:
- The collage faces are nicely varied even though they are the same motif.
- I like the collage faces with black and white lines to show depth and light.
- Use of colour and line really works well,
- Love colour, collages are perfect mix of playful but are visually successful.
- Really lovely stuff in sketchbook.
- The collage with the portraits look ace.
- Perhaps try not to draw portrait very often but I got to admit that you are good.
- Really like your sketchbook - so much fun! Good experimentation of media, colours and line!
TO DO: Make images combining up to 3 motifs and the intangible to add atmosphere and feeling.
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