Saturday, 18 October 2014

I've been pursuing the drawings of buildings in people idea I had. I've tried using colour in the work by colouring the figures but in a way so that you can still see the building in the figure. I prefer the black & white work though as it keeps a better balance between the picture being of the figure and of the building. This balance is very important to my work at the moment as I don't want it to be primarily about one over the other.
I've experimented with keeping bits of the figure blank from the drawing of the building eg. for one drawing I drew the building inside all of the figure except it's skin. I didn't think this was an improvement on the original idea though as it took away too much from the drawing of the building which became too fragmented.
I'm also finding the amount of detail put into the figure is important as is the kind of line I use to draw it as apposed to the building, I'm currently playing around with these concepts but am als planning to start working on a larger scale and with crowds of people (I've already started experimenting with two figures).

While doing this I'm still trying to do some surveying and creative exploration of the sites themselves (mainly the train station) as the project is mainly about these and I feel I may have rushed into an idea too fast. I find tracing paper is very useful for this project as it allows you to experiment with layering things and saves me from the tedious task of having to draw the building freehand if I just need a quick drawing to test something.

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