To loosen up and be able to think outside the box, I participated in a day of casual illustration exercises. Although I feel my illustrations are quite strong, they are always very neat and look the same. From the previous design project, through illustrating with collage and mixed media, I decided to use the day to its full advantage and enjoy the freedom in drawing in this way. Much like life drawing each exercise was no longer than 5/10 minutes, meaning I didn't have time to correct each drawing, I simply had to just draw over the top. In reflection, I felt I did quite well during the day's exercises and the feedback I got from both tutors and other students was extremely positive.
The drawings each were meant to relate to our chosen words, meaning that everyone's would be different and every person was entitled to produce whatever work they wanted. It was really interesting seeing how other people interpret words, and design illustrations. This was very inspiring, and I feel I could develop how people made marks onto the page, or simple the resources they used.
These workshops each focused on a certain part of illustration, for example shape, silhouette, colour and detail. I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed the shape and detail illustration workshop, as my illustrations are normally so neat and focused on the body and face, these weren't at all. The only detail you could add in was in the form of lines and marks. I felt this workshop really connected with my chosen words, the whole day was about mark making, and although it meant taking the word literally it produced some really exciting work.
Much of Bacon's work is distorted and dark, so ignoring his colour palette I tried to focus this energy into a variety of abstractions I produced that day. Keeping in mind his love of portrait paintings, I used the face as a base for my illustration work, not fully completely or re-organising the layout of the face and bodies I drew.
-Mark- -Francis Bacon- -Chaotic-
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