I began the week of graphics not knowing what to expect since this is the first time that I have explored graphics as a subject. This week taught me about the different kind of graphics that exist, and highlighted the importance of graphics to portray a message and meaning to an audience.
We started the first day by listening to Martin Luther King '' I have a dream '' Speech August 28, 1963.
This speech taught me that graphics play a huge role in propaganda and getting messages across clearly. Martin Luther King's speech inspires me to have my own dream.
Our second task of the day was still life drawing of portraits using different drawing techniques. I enjoyed this task as a lot of experimentation was included and it was fun to draw people that we see every day. We used four different drawing techniques : Drawing with our eyes closed, drawing with our mouths, left hand and a linear drawing (I had never used linear drawing technique before). Each drawing came out in a different style; abstract, graphic, neat and messy, which I found interesting as I am used to seeing myself produce one kind of drawing style, so I was quite surprised and happy to discover this.
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Fig 1: (left) James drawn blind (2013) Authors Own.
Fig 2: (right) : Dan drawn by mouth (2013) Authors Own. |
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| Fig 3 : Katie drawn using left hand (2013) Authors Own |
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| Fig 4 : Linear self portrait (2013) Authors Own |
Our last task of the morning was then to draw someone's ear in 15 minutes. I drew Brandon's ear. I experimented by using different coloured pens which I thought might show a contrast between the darker and lighter parts of the ear. I am quite happy with what I produced as I took a risk by using these colours.
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| Fig 5: Brandon's Ear (2013) Authors Own |
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| Fig 6 : Ears (2013) Authors Own |
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| Fig 7: Ears (2013) Authors Own |
During the weekend, we had been given homework to collect 10 images of famous people. In the afternoon we were told we had to create a collage of a face out of the images we had collected over the weekend. I honestly found this task quite difficult. I found the concept of cutting up final images and putting them all together to create a new one quite difficult because all of the images were already finalised so I wasn't really sure where to cut or where to put what. I experimented with lots of different collage placements throughout the afternoon. I am quite happy with how my collage turned out however I do not think it looks like a proper real life face but more like something imagined, since my character has three arms...
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| Fig 8: Collage of Face (2013) Authors Own |
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Fig 9 : Viewfinder Drawing (2013) Authors Own
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I like the viewfinder drawing that you have done here, mainly because it includes a mixture of both colours and greys to create a nice contrast between the two, showing the different sections of the collage nicely. I also like how it is quite abstract in that it would be hard to tell what the picture is actually depicting, I would like to see different parts of the collages drawn like this as I feel it would result in interesting results.
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