Bean Train Bang
This doesn't link directly to Visual Language but I felt that it reflects directly to the progress of my visual language sketchbook. I feel that it collaborates all of the individual elements which we have studied in this module.
I saw this image a while ago in response to the film LaLa land and thought it looked amazing! As soon as I saw it I realised that I wanted to do something like this. I think this is done digitally, maybe on a Wacom but noticed that it would translate well into analogue collage/paper cuts.
I then did a my first gig with the bluegrass band that I sing for and thought it would be amazing to get some photos of us performing and come up with my own response to the reference photos.
I wanted to keep the element of collage but also my drawings. My aim for this is to turn it into a promotional poster for us, but at current it is just illustrations.
This is them cut out and stuck on my wall...
I feel that I have learnt a lot from the last module of character design of how to simplify down faces whilst still keeping the essence of the person. I feel that I have managed to incorporate drawing and collage together!. I had a lot of neutral coloured paper. I thought that the people should be on an off white/greyish background rather than white.
I thought I could incorporate a colour through a limited palette through trousers, t-shirts and their instruments. Their instruments are the most important part of the band and therefore they definitely should have colour. I also noticed that their was a common theme of orange throughout the imagery (my hair, the washboard and the violinists jumper) and therefore I thought I should play on this to add brightness to the image by subtly incorporating it into the other performers. I think it really brightens up the piece and captures a sense of liveliness from the music into something that otherwise could look quite washed out.
I also left some of the clothing blank and added detail to some others to add variety and to not over complicate things as simplicity is sometimes the best. I think it works well having blocks of colour in contrast to the mark making.
The line quality is a constant between the figures, working as an outline as well as a form of building up texture on the clothing.
They all have different stances and body language. Some of the features are unrealistic but at the end of the day they are characters rather than replicas, just capturing my visual representation.
Also, the photos I had for reference were all taken from the same place and because we didn't have a lot of room there was overlapping. I plan to crop and overlap the figures when I turn them into a poster, looking at composition. However I needed full figures as the characters, therefore I had to elaborate a little... this was difficult with the double bass player but I think it works...
Simplicity in the hair was also something which I discovered, that with curls and light coloured hair it is just as important to leave bits out as to include them-just be suggestive.
I wanted to include these images because they were my inspiration for texture really and what I thought about when I was creating the band. Also I think it is a good example to visually see the progress between these figures and the band as I feel that their is obvious development.
It was really nice doing work outside of university, that was for myself but that I could still relate back to the things I have learnt as I guess it is applying what we have been taught through these sessions. However this is a work in progress...
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