What went well?
I think the composition is good this week which is great because I have been struggling with this. It is balanced and fills the frame evenly. The position of the tentacles help to keep the eye moving around the image, keeping it fluid and easy on the eye.
I used the wooden end of a paintbrush and quink to complete this image. I tested out a few different sizes of brush ends, there wasn't much difference between the outcomes but I chose the smallest one as it left less big splodges of ink but still had the line quality I was looking for. I think this was a good media choice for this subject matter as its quite fluid but also looks a little but clumsy and imperfect (intentionally) which links in with the idea that the tentacles don't really know whats going on and are just doing their own thing.
I am thinking about screen print! I am starting to see how this is going to work now with layers of colour and a top layer with my outline. For the purpose of fulfilling this weekly brief I have kept the image in black and white but the principles are in place for this to be separated and taken into print.
I used the wooden end of a paintbrush and quink to complete this image. I tested out a few different sizes of brush ends, there wasn't much difference between the outcomes but I chose the smallest one as it left less big splodges of ink but still had the line quality I was looking for. I think this was a good media choice for this subject matter as its quite fluid but also looks a little but clumsy and imperfect (intentionally) which links in with the idea that the tentacles don't really know whats going on and are just doing their own thing.
I am thinking about screen print! I am starting to see how this is going to work now with layers of colour and a top layer with my outline. For the purpose of fulfilling this weekly brief I have kept the image in black and white but the principles are in place for this to be separated and taken into print.
What didn't go well? Ideas for improvement.
Although I like the final composition of my image this week, I don't think that I am using the roughing stage effectively. It was at the point of actually sketching out my design that I came up with this composition. It was based on one of my roughs but in the rough all the tentacles were interlocking and crossing over whereas here I have kept them very much separate. To improve this I am going to tell myself that I need to keep roughing until I find the actual composition I am going to proceed with, not just something similar.
The pattern I included at the end was an afterthought as I realised it filled the frame well and might look good repeated. I added it into the presentation of this week's image but I am not taking my project down this route, I still want to focus on single images and just test out patterns if they seem appropriate. Having the idea of making a pattern at the end would change the way I think about composing my images and I don't want that to happen.
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