First off, I started to draw from in front of me, and as they were working I tried to capture concentration, even though they look like they're just staring into space. I like the art style I've chose to merge with my own style of sketching. I used Otto Dix's idea of very loose scribbles on the outside of certain things and objects. I chose to use pencil not charcoal just to get started to draw the simple facial structure. If I were to do this again I'd zoom out the image a bit to not make the drawings look as squashed in the frame and use the negative space appropriately.
I started drawing in the style of Ileana Hunter with her minimalist portrait art. I've always found her work really impressive and left me mind blown with the way she makes it so detailed as well as so effortless. Here, I've started with just the eyes and I've managed to make this drawing quite ambiguous e.g.; it could be seen as this girl is smiling (happy), or worried (anxious) etc. I do like how I've drawn the eyes as they are very expressive and, to me, they're seen to be perfect looking eyes.
I wanted to experiment with how dark I can get with the shadows, because the previous drawing worked so well. I used a reference image from the internet as a guide and then made it my own. I really liked how this experiment turned out, still using Ileana Hunter's technique by leaving out the shape of the face (as the brain will figure that out once seeing the piece) and keeping it detailed as I can at the same time. It was quite a challenge for me not to over complicate this.
For this piece I tried to replicate what Ileana Hunter has done completely. I found one of her images on the internet and I used that as a guide for the shading but made it my own as well so it wasn't the same exact face. I think it's worked really well, but at this moment I'm not sure how I can develop Hunter's technique of the minimalist portrait art to be developed into an interesting emotion portrait down the line, even though I love doing this kind of drawing! I'll see where I am when I get there.
This was inspired by Oskar Kokoschka's sketching style, from the harsh dark lines around certain places, but I've stylized this to be quite cartoon-ish by making her cheek bones and jaw bones very chiseled and more prominent. It was just an experimental piece which I quite liked in the end.
This little sketch was a reference from the internet and I just wanted to try out drawing it, as I wanted to try a drawing out with coloured pencils. It turned out well, for it being not my strength I'm quite proud of it. If I were to do this again I'd make the colours more vibrant and mix colours together and blend a lot more because it looks, to me, quite easy block colours with no merging of any other colour in some parts.
I took inspiration from Vince Low's scribble biro portraits. I asked my friends send or link me a "selfie" of themselves, with not a normal expression, that I can draw from. I found this quite an interesting way of capturing emotion in a quick photo of yourself that you can take, so I could take this forward in my development. I liked how these turned out even though some of the proportions are a little out in some areas but they're ok at the moment. If I had to re-do these I'd make sure the porportions are a lot better and draw it much bigger because the scribbles round the side look squashed in.
I used Voka's and Oskar Kokoschka's use of vibrant colours in their portraits and merged them into one. I thought this selfie of this person was perfect with all the bright and wild colours because that reflects who he is; a wild free spirit that's really out there. I do like this piece how it brings out the person's face very well even though both the background and the face stand out a lot.
I also took this style on and created some more paintings and I feel these have been a success. I have painted a contrasts of emotions. On the left I have tried to give the impression of frustration or anger. I thought my figure, being my father, would be being perfect as he has good facial features to draw/paint from. On the right, I've painted a smiling emotion to symbolize happiness, obviously. I think the left one was more successful because I feel there was more to paint and focus on in the painting. Also I find the left painting more interesting to look at.
I took the previous piece's inspiration and merged it with Ileana Hunter's minimalist style, so I only painted the face but left it with horizontal and diagonal lines round the sides of the face. This was just an experiment and I'm not sure on this one, because I think the black and white ones are much better, even though they are different styles I'm going to say this didn't work with me well. I should have just left it black and white and drew this in pencil, pastel or charcoal.
This was an experiment using Jennifer Mazza's style of painting. Personally I didn't enjoy the way of painting because I felt like it wasn't working with me. The rough style of painting was okay but I couldn't be more expressive with the facial expression as I wanted to. As well as the proportions were all wrong and it doesn't look as Jennifer Mazza had done so to me it just didn't work for me. I thought I would because I like the realistic but I just didn't enjoy painting this piece. I much prefer the works of Voka because its eye-catching and it keeps the eyes on and around the painting, exploring how the simple brush strokes make the figure in the painting so alive and detailed.
I took inspiration from Marion Bolognesi with her watercolour portraits. This was just a experiment first before I did the painting of the face. It came out pretty well for a first time doing this sort of painting. If I were to paint it again, I'd give myself more time for the first layer of paint to dry before I start the next layer.
Here is the full painting I've done using Marion Bolognesi's way of using watercolour to emphasize features and emotions in their faces. I like how this turned out because its so simple but it's quite striking at the same time. If I were to recreate this I'd do a different expression which is more outrageous or more interesting to look at.
Here I've used Marion Bolognesi's style of watercolour as well as keeping the colour scheme to natural colours like Jennifer Mazza's paintings. I think this worked well although I didn't enjoy it as much as other paintings and drawings I've done before. Drawing from still life then painting afterwards was a challenge because its a moving figure in front of you but I enjoyed this challenge. I don't think I'll use this style further but it doesn't show emotion fully, it just looks like a picture to me.
Here I've expanded from just emotions through human portraiture to animals as well. Here I have drawn a picture of my pet cat, to show emotions are obviously in every living thing so I tried to capture some shots of his face. I have used inspiration from Vince Low's squiggly pen drawings to emphasize their facial expressions. As well I have drawn a monkey's facial expression because they're close to the human species so i thought this photo reference was quite fitting. I also used Vince Low's style of drawing because I thought this would work quite well, and I think it did. I think the monkey worked best because it shows more emotion than the cat piece. This is because the monkeys face has lines to represent how its feeling, and as he looks quite mischievous the lines emphasized this aspect.
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