5m pres. Show your work in progress: what’s your main challenge and how is your research addressing it?_
Fast Observational Drawings in Crayon
Creating some quick drawings to loosen up my technique. Here I am using either a coloured pastel or pencil in an A6 sketchbook in order to form some bold marks. The benefit here is fast depictions of characters, but the issue is not being able to capture expressions or surrounding details.
London Themed Drawings
Drawing on Location
Drew on location for the Street24 event. Found it interesting on both these sketches and the crayons sketches that people seem to shift and walk away as soon as they notice that you are drawing them / your eyes are on them. Perhaps it’s more the body language I am creating (ie maybe I am obviously uncomfortable.)
WHAT IS YOUR MAIN CHALLENGE AND HOW IS YOUR RESEARCH ADDRESSING IT?
- Creating a narrative to transport the characters through the finished article
- Combining the characters into a cohesive format.
- Using a technique that best emulates the formula I am intending to use.
The quick answers:
Looking into book design that emulates the concept of unreliable narration / Positioning the characters in various ways using researched compositional techniques / Experimenting with different ways of mark-making, to see what creates the most convincing atmosphere.
Having to depict characters when I have no photographic or drawn references to go from – just text – might prove to be difficult, but this is one of the main points of my investigation.
By reading some of the following texts, I hope to gain insight into how memory’s fallibility and combined with last creatives who have used memory as a device, think of ways of depict unreliable narratives.
