Shape and Texture

Shape and Texture

I started off not totally understanding the task required and was still making my kiwi too complex (image 1) Then i began to break the elements out and work with unusual angles.

These are my kiwis. We were studying who to strip things down to the bare minimum. "People see more when they see less". Here I tried to represent a kiwi but I also started to make it unusual. This is not a style I have ever used before (some of the shapes are abstract) and this was surprising and quite satisfactory to produce. Messing around with different angles and ways of showing the pips and the base. 

Initially though i needed to draw a picture of myself and what I was wearing because funnily enough it is very hard to visualise what you actually look like without taking a photo. I have heard that if you passed yourself in the street you might not recognise yourself! 

As soon as we were set the task to make ourselves through media i thought it would be easy and got cracking. However I found this really difficult. I went right back to trying to make everything very representational and not expressing it in a different way. I got my self in a pickle trying to do everything fiddly and I got to this point with this face and decided it wasn't working. I walked around the class and saw how playful all of their faces were and decided to go for a break and have a think. I then came back and bashed my face out quickly and it is sooooo much more effective. I find the design process on tasks like this soon exhausting! It takes me a long time to register and after about an hour I can begin to start producing but only after having my head buzzing with stress and confusion!

Here I stripped the eyes down to just the colour of my eyes and the eye liner which I wear every day.  I like the texture of the thick paint and the bit of orange background which didn't stick down properly. I also added in some facial tone through a slightly darker paper. I didn't include all the contours of the face but just enough to define it so that it isn't flat. I also ended up using a limited colour palette, reusing the same colours for my earrings as already on the face.