Memories
Project Proposal
Over the course of my time at college I have learned a lot. Since my first year I have learned how to create a pencil vs camera piece, how to monoprint, how to cross stitch and also how to create cut paper designs as I could never do these before.
For the Final Major Project on memories, I have decided to create artworks that best display my skills and show what I am best at creating with pencil drawings and some photoshop. I have also decided to challenge myself to make this project interesting by drawing anatomy and body parts as well as abstract geometric shapes and patterns the combination of these two styles reflects the idea of memory itself the classical ways of drawing represents the past and the modern abstract shapes with bright colours represent modern times.
Together both styles simulate the idea of memory with the “past” being slightly changed and altered by the “present” as memory is never the same to how something actually happened. I am confident in my ability to create a great pencil drawing as I have a solid eye for detail.
My concept is of People of the Past this means I will be pencil drawing many celebrated people who are now no longer with us that I find very interesting, each drawing will be visually distinct from one another in subtle ways with different colours and techniques for each drawing as well as each piece including many geometric shapes and patterns to spice up and modernize the pencil drawings there will also be important and prominent areas of the drawings being detailed differently, my current ideas for famous people to choose from may include.
Famous Actors such as Marlin Brando or Audrey Hepburn
Famous Musicians for example Nina Samone and Marvin Gaye
Famous Leaders like Napoleon Bonaparte or the infamous Adolf Hitler
Famous Artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali
Famous Royals such as Queen Elizabeth the first or King Charles the Second
Famous Authors like the authors such as Jules Verne, Harper Lee
Famous Inventors like La Marcus Thompson or the great Sir Isaac Newton
Once I have decided on the portrait images of famous people, I will select 6 images for my major final project. I am planning to use materials such as pencils, photoshop, coloured pens and coloured pencils. I will use all of these to create my pieces.
I will be taking pieces by artists that I find inspiring and recreating them in order to better understand how they were made, I will also be using PowerPoint to visually store all of the information that I have collected and to annotate my work as well as the artist’s work and show how this all leads to the development of my finished piece. I will also create primary research by testing drawing anatomy to improve on my drawing skills as well recording my sketches in PowerPoint and annotating them to see where I went wrong so that I can improve them and the more practice I have at drawing the more skilled and confident I will become.