Stuck...

Finding it hard to think of where I could find some unusual or eccentric people!!

When in Leeds

So here are my photos of my weekend, trying to capture the atmosphere, I think the photos do that, but everyone in them just looks not quirky enough to draw!

Extended Major Project Ideas!

I've decided for my Extended Major Project I am going to focus on University culture and the interesting characters you see when out and about. I want to try and capture unusually dressed, unique and edgy people to draw, if I manage to get some photos of funny situations aswell then even better! I'm going to Leeds this weekend for a rave so hopefully this will be a good opportunity to capture some photos so I'll have my disposable camera at the ready!

Uni Life

After thinking about university culture and the nights out, I wanted to create some collages which captured a sense of this, and the people involved. So I took some photos and got busy in my sketchbook. 

After finishing, I realise the brown paper isn't the best, and they would look better with a sugar paper background of maybe colours or just plain white.

Some Previous Work

Here is some previous collage work, I am really satisfied with the outcome.

It's A Ritual

After watching Planet Earth, I've found myself interested in Tribesmen and the rituals they all follow, I find it interesting to think that, even across two different cultures, on completely two different sides of the world and them being considerably more primitive compared to us, we both set out to do the same thing, impress everyone around us in social situations, by interacting in different ways. Tribesmen are known to dance in a circle competing with each other to impress female members of the tribe, by painting their faces and bodies in a special pattern and way. Whilst dancing for as long as they can stand, they show all their teeth with a big grin and made their eyes as wide as possible to make them more attractive to the opposite sex. This reminds me of something; the rituals of the west where we all get dressed up as best as we can, and go out to club to dance and sometimes try and impress members of the opposite sex. The same situation - just different ways of how this is done. Which led me on to thinking about university culture and all of our social interaction. Here's a little sketch from my book;

Development

Here are some illustrations developed from the vintage shop drawings, they are done using collage and photoshop;