Tracing one of my original roughs again and again making slight alterations to each proved to be a good method of producing slight variations of the same image until I found one I was happy with to take forward. Also, tracing each individual section of the image as a separate shape brought me back to the idea of collage which I think is the direction i'm going to take this brief this week.
I continued to adapt this shape of a figure using the same tracing method but as it evolved, it became more representational of an actual body and I felt there was too much detail on the hands and feet. I decided to go right back to my original drawings and simplify the shape down again to something more abstract. I felt the new lack of detail linked to the idea of it being a puppet as well which was appropriate.
In my initial rough for this piece, I had drawn a suggestion of a crowd in the background. I then thought maybe it would be better to use blue to show the floor of the boxing ring but this drew too much attention to the bottom half of the image where not much was going on. I thought making the background darker in some way would give the impression of a more daunting experience - also, I felt that seeing as this is representing a fight with your own brain, you wouldn't have an audience so I didn't want to draw individual people in the distance. I am planning to use dip pens as a tool for mark making to fill this space.
Pattern is a theme I am carrying through all of my images - I painting my own patterns with watercolour, cutting them out as individual collage pieces and combining them with line work using watered down gouache paint and dip pens. I was going to produce a tight repeat pattern for the brain but in the end decided that broader brush strokes would show the shape of the brain and eliminate the need for line work on it. The lines could have detracted from the main focus of the image which is the boxing gloves showing that a fight is on. I have been experimenting with mark making and pattern in my sketchbook for the other two pieces as well.
I am pleased with the progress of my project so far and I have found that tracing has been a very valuable method of making small changes to drawings quickly instead of drawing everything out again. I feel my direction for this brief has been influenced by this week's visual language task because I have really got into mark making and have been trying to create marks which represent the idea and mood behind an image.
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