Final Major Project: The Human Body

My final project is the last assignment combining all of the specialist skills which I have learnt and developed over the past 2 years. This being our last assignment we have to propose our own idea in a lot of depth having a certain pathway whether that is photography, painting, sculpture etc. Towards the end of this project we will have to make our last final outcome which will be exhibited in the End of Year show during the week commencing the 6th June 2016.
After much deliberation I have chosen my theme which is based on The Human body and specifically how the body moves by researching into the bones and muscles by doing some studies using a range of different medias/materials. As well as this I will research into to artists who incorporate the body using Pinterest and resources.


Artist Presentation

Danny Quirk: The exhibition in ‘The Requited’ at The Northampton Center For The Arts  overall was made to be viewed as one large piece or experience. Like a progressive album, each piece leads into the one following it as if were a journey. " I wanted to name it ‘(Un)Requited’, but, new year, figured I'd go with a happier approach. It starts dark, but eventually gets happy in the end."- Danny Quirk http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/12461/1/danny-quirk-anatomical-self-dissections

Like Quirk I could create a journey throughout the human body maybe create 4 pieces and show different bodies filled in with bones/muscles/organ and see how its all made up to create our body and show how it works. Another way of showing the body is maybe how a segment ages whether that's externally or internally eg effects of smoking etc.

Artist Inspiration: Journeys

Andy Warhol

I would say that I was most inspired by Andy Warhol considering he has done both printing methods (blotted line and screen printing). So I think it'll be nice to combine to the two.
I liked how he varied the lines in his blotted line changing the thickness etc to create different textures. This is what I have tried through out my experimentations and developments by using my own photos.
I was very much inspired by his screen prints also because I like how clean every edge is so I'll try to do this in my outcome contracting with the messy blotted line however I will explore messier edges and perhaps enhance them to link with the main piece in the middle.

Ian Murphy

I personally love Murphy's work due to the amount of texture created by a fine liner  using mark making such as cross hatch, pointillism and lots more.
Throughout my development I linked blotted line with this kind of mark making by adding more texture and depth to the piece. If some stencils of the logo go a bit rough round the edges I could just enhance them by going over with fine liner adding more texture like Murphy.

Link to another Art and Design Blog

http://drawingsandnotes.blogspot.co.uk/

Here's a link to another art and design blog which explores and presents different pieces of art which includes the information of the artist who created and the date it was made. This blog shows a diverse range of work from drawing to textiles. Which can inspire anyone to do their own work along the lines of a specific artist.


Few examples:

Personal Work

Both pieces of work were produced in my Exquisite Corpse sketch and these pieces are my favourite because the look very clear and refined and I feel like painting and drawing is more of my forte.

Linking back to my inspirations this painting clearly shows I was inspired by Caron because I linked the animal with Brads looks (well in this picture)

A pen illustration filling the shape with different marks to mimick the texture of either the feathers or bones this was in spired by the chapman brothers because they are inspired by the consequence game and as you can tell my drawing is kind of split into 3 creating my own hybrid form.

Exquisite Corpse Inspirations

Throughout this topic I have been inspired by five artists with completely different styles and different media which I wanted to incorporate in to my final outcome somehow.
The main artists that I have been inspired by are Peony Yip and Charlotte Caron who are both contemporary artists.

Charlotte Caron

Caron is a multi disciplinary artist combining photography and painting. She paint animals onto her own photos linking the animal with either their personality or looks.

Peony Yip

Yip is a contemporary artist who is fairly new. She has been developing her style until she feel its good enough to be in certain exhibitions. her work is mainly illustration which consists of drawings with another drawing overlaying (red pen) which would be an animal linking to the angle/position of the person.

I was inspired by her portraits of bugs because they were very weird and odd which links with this project very well. As these bugs were coming out of all kinds of places such as the mouth and eyes etc. Again these portraits were done by pencils and colour pencils ( to create contrast).









Logo Process

For my logo I had to use the pen tool to create each line even the text. It was a long process however I feel like it looks neat and precise. The small lines that represent the children were done by using a white box and layer that over the top creating a breaking point. Same with the white boxes but all I did was change the outline to black so you can see it clearly.

On the trafficking part I still used the pen tool but while I was doing it I used fill so it would automatically turn black when I have done it.

Graphic Image Editing process

Here is my graphic image. The first step of making my graphic image was to use the blemish tool to remove any kind of imperfections. Making the skin look smoother,

To make my image more emotional for the public I decided to make it black and white. Adjustments> Black and white

As I have changed the image to black and white I need to exaggerate the dark areas. This was done by decreasing the red tones a lot. Exaggerating the under eye area making it look like she has had no sleep.

Here is my final graphic image. Personally I really like how it turned out. I feel like it would create a reaction from the public. Showing that Human trafficking is still happening especially where you live but you don't necessarily suggest people are getting taken.

Lighting:
To take these photos I needed some specialist equipment
.White Background
.x3 soft boxes
-one near the white background to make it high key f16.2
- another one mid chest height f8.4
-finally one at head height  f8.0

.DSLR D3000
.1/60
.f/9
.100 ISO