Our first Drawing and Imaging assignment consisted of us choosing four personal objects, alongside any chosen sculpture from the Brooklyn museum. The four personal objects I chose were: a disposable camera, my knitting needles and yarn, a very precious ring of mine and two lapis lazuli crystals. Once we were set with our objects and sculpture, we had to come up with a few different and unique thumbnail sized compositions, allowing us to play around and get creative with different arrangements.
After choosing the basis of my favourite thumbnail, I drew it on a larger piece of paper, changed a few things here and there, scanned it and uploaded it into illustrator. I then used the pen tool to carefully draw over all the objects as best as I could, not everything turned out to be perfect though, therefore I then went over everything using the smooth tool to smooth out any messy and rough lines. We were asked to create one black on white, and another inverse (white on black) of these images. Resulting in these two positive/negative pieces:
The second part of this assignment was all about value, and saw us working with grey scale and collaging. I rearranged the composition of my objects for this part of the project, experimenting using thumbnails, then once again sketching my favourite and final arrangement on a bigger piece of paper. Once I had the skeletal sketch, I used ink and a little of wax to add some preliminary textural effects to the piece. I then, once again, scanned and uploaded this piece into illustrator in order to go over everything with the pen and smooth tools…
I then used the shape-finder tool to play around with breaking up and filling in different shapes using grey scale and gradients. I also played around with opacity and stroke heaviness/lightness in various different areas of the piece. Once I was done with all of this digital work in illustrator, I printed the piece and pasted different textural papers to the surface, alongside using some glitter. I also wanted my piece to have a frame, in order for it to present in a more powerful and aesthetically pleasing way
