People + Charcoal Prints

Again, I took the same print, however without the faces. This time, the goal was the make the viewer work of the image. In place of all names I put words such as Humans or People. As I said before, I did not feel it mattered who was on the cover of the magazine, which means it could be anyone. However, I do not believe it is something noticed by everyone. Giving reason for why the viewer must work to see the image and understand the print. 

Process: I ran a black flat as the background first and allowed that to dry. I then ran the text print about 6-10 times to allow the ink to thicken. Right after running the second layer, I placed the print in a box and sprinkled powered charcoal over the entire image. I allowed that to sit over night. The next day I wold shake the excess powder from the print, leaving the image with an almost felt fabric appearance. 

Gestural Forms (1)

Just did this one... I like it a lot better than the first one I did with two figures from before. This time I did do a sketch with pencil before bringing in the charcoal.

Materials: Some type of paper (I think once again from my printmaking class), pencil, and charcoal.

Sketch Work: Gestural Forms Continued

Additional gestural drawings. They are pretty sketchy but I'm pretty pleased with what is coming out thus far. The bottom one with the two figures is my favorite. I don't know why I didn't think about putting two figures in the images. It pulls more of a story to the surface. It wasn't until I went back and looked at Jedd Garet's work that I even considered putting more than on figure into the an image. In his works, the figures almost look as though they are dancing or embraced in one another. When I read it, it comes across as a love story almost. I want to be able to do that with my images. Right now they kind of just look like they are leaning on one another... not that that is a bad thing. I want them to look frail and weak, so that dependency on one another for support and strength would be a good thing. I guess I just need to keep working and see where it goes...

Material: Newsprint and charcoal

 

Sketch Work: Gestural Forms

Trying to see different positions of the forms I can come up with... This is not very many, so I'll want to continue playing with them and seeing what I can do. I've been advised to try and physically build the forms and see what I get from that. Hopefully soon I can make a run out to Home Depot and pick up some materials and try and build a few of these. But as of right now, this is what I've been working on. These were the first few sketches. I was not particularly concerned with how the images turned out, just getting the form and position.

Materials: Newsprint and charcoal
 

The Skinny (2)

Another drawing, same idea. I think it looks blurry, I scanned it in though, so I'm not sure why it looks to weird. Anyway, same as before, made with pencil, charcoal, ink, and paint (8 1/2"x11"). 

The Skinny

Most recent finished drawing. I hope to make more like these. Maybe get a little series going and see what happens with it.

The image was originally drawn in pencil. But I wasn't getting my darks like I wanted. I tried charcoal and it was not working in my favor. It was then I grabbed a bottle of ink I had just sitting around. I don't one of those fancy ink dipping pens, so I just used a pen cap. I think it works rather well in the images. And lastly, I used oil paint for the white highlights.

Basic Info:
Pencil, charcoal, ink, and paint.
8 1/2"x11