Recently I've been exploring my idea of musicians without their hair in conjunction with past artists' drawing styles. I am trying to get a good range of artists from throughout history to see what effect different times may have on identity. S far I am looking at: El Greco, Da Vinci, Egon Schiele and Charles Le Brun.

I have also been doing some quick sketches of bald heads to get  a better idea of what the head of musicians may look like under all their hair.

On the bald musician front I'm also looking at their clothing a bit since so many of them have such a distinctive style and could be identified by clothing alone.

Recently I've been looking at people who most people can identify. This has mainly been musicians and the source of identity seems to mainly come from iconic hair cuts (the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, young Bob Dylan etc). This has lead to me looking at what happens when you take away this primary source of identification. I am now drawing a series of musicians without hair to see how recognisable  they are.

For this project I have mainly been looking at what makes our identity and then what happens when we take that away. This has involved looking at: stereotypes, age, body shape and clothing as well as things like: physical features and hair. I've even touched upon different time periods. I've played around with all these different identities to try and see how much a small change can affect an identity and to see if identity is primarily down to things we're born with like physical features or something you create yourself through things like clothing.

This is my new blog for reflecting upon my work in my uni illustration course.