Art Work

Working from life drawings

Using 2D media

14/01/15

Using the life drawings that we have been drawing, we are creating pieces of art work that are of the same style as Vorticism and Futurism. This requires sketching out pieces of work already done and applying media in a fashion similar to that of the two movements.

My first attempt at creating a Vortecist piece using life drawing was of a skull. Because the style I was immitating called for sharp, angular and dynamic lines, I sharpened all edges and created thick lines around it. I used a miture of Black charcoal, orange chalk and white chalk.

This proved rather easy for me because of the angular nature of the skull, so upon completing this, I moved on to creating another piece from previous drawings using the model.

For this piece I used a mixture of ink, pen, glitter and coloured pencils. I separated the body into a series of angular shapes. The green ink was used to show low lights and the yellow was to show highligts. any blue was showing extreme low lights. The glitter was applied onto the green as close to the edge, next to the black pen that I had used to outline, as possible. Once I had completely covered the pieve with ink, I then used a yellow and green pencil so as to show more tone and to add more of a 3D affect to the shapes.

The last piece was created using triangles cut out of yellow, orange and green paper, which were positioned carefully, using a charcoal drawing as reference. The yellow was once again used as highlight, where as the orange was used for low lights, and the green for extreme low lights. Once I had finished sticking down the paper, I ten went around the shape in black charcoal to make the shapes more distinguishable.