a drawing is like taking a line for a walk
“A drawing is taking a line for a walk”
We decided to emulate this sentence through a continuous line drawing. The ends of the drawing had wire dangling down from them not the floor, and then shaping into the world line.
We liked the look of the scribble technique so that is what we included in our final project piece. We planned before hand so that we were sure that it was the style and look we wanted. Within our group we assigned different tasks to each person (e.g. two people did artist research, one person planned and one did the final piece). This was really effective as we were able to get more done at one time. To begin with though, we all thought of ideas and discussed them, and in the end we voted on our favourite idea.
We then researched artists who use line and continuous line drawings.
We found an artist called Susan Seigel. She created line drawings using pen on a plain background to portray animals, with observation drawings of nature. She adds annotations to the piece to help the viewer to get the correct message across, as her work is quite abstract, so could be quite are to understand without a description and artist statement.. We chose this artist as we found her on Pinterest while searching line artist and a piece of her work captured our eyes.
She also uses water colours to add colour to her work and this can help portray a stronger message as tone and emotions can be linked to the colours. Her work is very expressive as the lines that she creates can hold the emotions that she had while creating the piece.
While we had this artist in mind we wanted to emulate a continuous line drawing of a man. We are just using pen not water colour, as it would appear more bold to use just black ink against the white background, and wanted to focus more on line rather than shade and tone.
While developing our ideas we found another artist called Andy Goldsworthy, so we wanted to use photo montage. We thought of the idea of using white chalk and drawing sections of an eye in different places on the ground and so we put the images on the computer and made them into a eye.
we linked our new artist to our final piece as he does sculptures and so we used the ground as a canvas and each path is different .
We really like how our piece turned out, but, to make it better, we could have possibly taken a lot more pictures which would’ve allowed us to add further detail. The final product isn’t too detailed but we believe that the idea is most important and the execution was quite good when considering the amount of time we had to create it.
THE PROCESS
It was quite an easy process to create our final piece. We walked around the college which a piece of chalk, and drew a small piece of an eye in each area. This was then all put together by printing off the photos and cutting them into the shape on an eye with a photo montage. it looked very effective bringing together all of the different textures and shades from the areas that we drew on.
FEEDBACK
We received very good feedback from our peers for our project. We were told to develop our piece from drawing, using different materials. We could maybe use the shapes and corners from actual objects to build together into one mage with a photo montage. We could also use photoshop to edit the photos to look how we wanted them to.
We decided to emulate this sentence through a continuous line drawing. The ends of the drawing had wire dangling down from them not the floor, and then shaping into the world line.
We liked the look of the scribble technique so that is what we included in our final project piece. We planned before hand so that we were sure that it was the style and look we wanted. Within our group we assigned different tasks to each person (e.g. two people did artist research, one person planned and one did the final piece). This was really effective as we were able to get more done at one time. To begin with though, we all thought of ideas and discussed them, and in the end we voted on our favourite idea.
We then researched artists who use line and continuous line drawings.
We found an artist called Susan Seigel. She created line drawings using pen on a plain background to portray animals, with observation drawings of nature. She adds annotations to the piece to help the viewer to get the correct message across, as her work is quite abstract, so could be quite are to understand without a description and artist statement.. We chose this artist as we found her on Pinterest while searching line artist and a piece of her work captured our eyes.
She also uses water colours to add colour to her work and this can help portray a stronger message as tone and emotions can be linked to the colours. Her work is very expressive as the lines that she creates can hold the emotions that she had while creating the piece.
While we had this artist in mind we wanted to emulate a continuous line drawing of a man. We are just using pen not water colour, as it would appear more bold to use just black ink against the white background, and wanted to focus more on line rather than shade and tone.
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| Piece by Susan Seigel. |
While developing our ideas we found another artist called Andy Goldsworthy, so we wanted to use photo montage. We thought of the idea of using white chalk and drawing sections of an eye in different places on the ground and so we put the images on the computer and made them into a eye.
we linked our new artist to our final piece as he does sculptures and so we used the ground as a canvas and each path is different .
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist. He produces natural art in chosen settings for the best outcome. He lives in Scotland and all of his work is of the nature he finds there. Goldsworthy isn’t necessarily known for line art but some of his creations do fall into that category. The pictures below show lines that he created in natural settings. He simply rearranges the objects he finds into something very imaginative and uses his photography skills to present them in the best light.
We really enjoy Andy’s work as it is fairly unique. The complete use of nature is very intriguing and so we decided to include a natural background to our line art. Although we used unnatural materials to create outlines, we still think the varied backgrounds make it better. Producing your own art can be easy but using the natural world and turning it into something inventive is a bit harder. Of course, like Andy, we too used photography to create our artwork, but we also edited it to be able to create the overall image that we wanted (the shape of an eye and an eyebrow).
THE PROCESS
It was quite an easy process to create our final piece. We walked around the college which a piece of chalk, and drew a small piece of an eye in each area. This was then all put together by printing off the photos and cutting them into the shape on an eye with a photo montage. it looked very effective bringing together all of the different textures and shades from the areas that we drew on.
FEEDBACK
We received very good feedback from our peers for our project. We were told to develop our piece from drawing, using different materials. We could maybe use the shapes and corners from actual objects to build together into one mage with a photo montage. We could also use photoshop to edit the photos to look how we wanted them to.
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