Have enjoyed collecting/making some of the images but as far as others go I can't help feeling that I'm gathering images that I'm not really interested in. I'm just being driven by the need to satisfy a quota - daft! - and it feels like it's to the detriment of quality.
Learning a little more about Illustrator - tracing and effects - self-taught.
Is making me think about colour choices - harking back to colour assignment.
Thursday, 23 November 2006
Monday, 13 November 2006
26 Faces
Part One - Letter Forms
Shot these in one morning in the garden - assisted by the brilliant light of the low autumn sun. I had a hunch that setting quite tight boundaries might concentrate the mind here and produce more rapid results. I had initially considered trying to extrapolate all letter forms from one single object; for example, a car. But the notion of using the garden began to offer an organic unity in terms of content and palette that was very appealing.
I think the context successfully binds the letter forms into a coherent alphabet.
Really had to search creatively at times and utilise shadows and cropped images. Seem to work well displayed as a grid where the letter forms are pretty much of the correct height in relation to one another.
Part Two - Faces
Electrical equipment provided a rich vein of images. I like the way in which each has definite characteristics. It makes you consider just what it is about the arrangement of features that produces a particular demeanour.
There must be something compelling about this idea - the whole family got involved.
Shot these in one morning in the garden - assisted by the brilliant light of the low autumn sun. I had a hunch that setting quite tight boundaries might concentrate the mind here and produce more rapid results. I had initially considered trying to extrapolate all letter forms from one single object; for example, a car. But the notion of using the garden began to offer an organic unity in terms of content and palette that was very appealing.
I think the context successfully binds the letter forms into a coherent alphabet.
Really had to search creatively at times and utilise shadows and cropped images. Seem to work well displayed as a grid where the letter forms are pretty much of the correct height in relation to one another.
Part Two - Faces
Electrical equipment provided a rich vein of images. I like the way in which each has definite characteristics. It makes you consider just what it is about the arrangement of features that produces a particular demeanour.
There must be something compelling about this idea - the whole family got involved.
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