Hello and welcome, there has been a gap over the summer and between now and my last post, I've settled back into the course again and just completed my first project, called "It's good to talk" with the lovely Jim McBride. The task was to find a script from somewhere, from a real life conversation from films, books, television, plays and many other things.
I chose Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett. I was thinking about ways to apply the imagery in a way that was different from the actual play itself, I didn't want to tribute it, i was thinking about doing a conversation between two birds on a branch or not really having images but having the type as a decorative image, in the end I threw it out the window and drew rope bondage, something that I'm interested in.
I went about looking for pictures and I found some lovely artistic ones on a website called Beautiful Bondage. and did some rough initial sketches.
Next I decided I need something to take and make my own at this point I went to Twistedmonk, Monk is a gentleman I much admire and he makes and sells rope and is also a big name in that scene, I follow his blog check it out. Monk does some great instructional videos so what I did was as the video played in my browser and the screen shot the images, and then used them to model my own images, just so i could get the figurative aspect relatively clear. Traced the images back on to an acrylic background and used ink to go over the lines and white acrylic to highlight certain areas and pencil to gave it a bit of shadow and applied typed digitally. The last image is a scan of one of the final images. You can also see some more images on my deviantart.
I would really like to do some life drawing though I haven't found anyone locally that does it, may Dr Sketchy's Scotland will do it at some point and have sent them a message, about if they will do it or if they know of anything else like it. If anyone else is interested in doing this kind of drawing get in touch and then I can get in touch with the right people.
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