Journey

My most recent college brief was to illustrate a journey using silhouettes and cut outs  along with other image making techniques such as drawing and printing.

I decided to use the journey through my first year of uni, focusing on my friends. I wanted to show how we have all changed and how the friendship has been formed, along with all the arguments, the break-ups and banter. 

First an introduction...

John, Lala, Anna, Josh, Holly (me), Scott and Sophie

Photograph taken by Scott Eyre.

I started off just observing 'us' as a group of people and compiled observational drawings from our art jams and nights in.

I drew my friend josh looking down while he was crouching over an enormous piece of paper and a bottle of masking fluid, i drew Anna cradling her cup of tea watching the apprentice and Sophie and Scott curled up watching films because I wanted to capture real images of real life.

I also did voice recordings of each person within the group, asking how they feel about everyone, what their first impressions were and how they have changed over the first year. (they are in the envelopes on the left hand page)

Close up biro drawing of sophie, lala and scott.

When considering how i was going to incorporate the idea of silhouette and cut out i experimented with creating profile silhouettes of all of us. I cut the silhouettes from tea stained paper, we drink alot of tea!

then I pulled quotes from each of the transcripts which related to that person and wrote them within the silhouettes. 

 These are drawings of Scott and Sophie (left) and Josh (right). I felt that the image of Scott and Sophie using watercolours and fine liners was really successful as it almost sums them up as people perfectly alongside the quotes, as Scott has alot to say and Sophie is quiet and keeps most of her feelings to herself. 

I felt that the hand prints were also very successful as they are almost more personal than a signature, especially in this case as the people in this image are in a relationship and the prints are from the hands they would use when they hold hands. 

Josh loves rubbish and uses alot of it in his work, he enjoys skip diving and finding things on the pavement so this drawing seemed completely appropriate. It is taken from a photograph which Lala took at one of the Art Jams.

This is work which is ongoing...