Foundation 2D – Finally, we’re here! It’s been a long ride through the last few weeks of the Project Emo Assignment. With mixed emotions (ha!) I present to you my final in A1.

The emotions I eventually settled on doing were: harassed, apathy, disdain, sanguine, recklessness, aggression, exasperation, irritation, contentment, entrapment, stress, discomfort, grouchiness, awkwardness, sympathy, playfulness (is that an emotion?), vulnerability and indecision.

For documentation’s sake, the following contains the method each was done with.

Harassed – watercolour, paintbrush

Apathy – calligraphy pen, water

Disdain – metal kitchen scrub, watercolour, poster paint

Sanguine – ink on newsprint

Recklessness – acrylic paint, cotton wool

Aggression – charcoal on crumpled paper

Exasperation – charcoal on twisted paper

Irritation – soaked paper in water, scraping with metal kitchen scrub

Contentment – watercolour, hair on my head

Entrapment – pencil, pen

Stress – watercolour, poster paints, scrubbed with metal kitchen scrub

Discomfort – watercolour, poster paints, menstrual pad

Grouchiness – crumpled paper, stamped made in ink

Awkwardness – acrylic paint straight from tube

Sympathy – ink, bayer

Playfulness –  shoe, acrylic paint

Vulnerability – pen knife

Indecision – tearing of paper

All in all, it was a rather adventurous process that enabled me to get to this point. I used my favourite methods from each of my explorations (which, if you would remember, included me throwing my journal into ADM fountain water) as well as some new, unconventional materials, such as my old shoes (finally got around to doing it!), a menstrual pad and my own hair (link).

While I find automatic drawing cathartic, I do however feel that I should focus more on positive emotions which would probably help me be able to process these feelings of joy, peace and contentment. These emotions are more difficult to portray however, in monochrome, as positive emotion would probably be easier to portray in bursts of colour. For example, rubbing a layer of charcoal evenly to create a hazy effect would be something I could do to portray peace – but at the same time, one might interpret the end product to be portraying emotions such as apathy or disinterest. Still, the process is one that helps free up my emotional thought space, and I really did enjoy it overall.

Thank you, and I hope that you enjoyed reading about the process as much as I did going through it! 🙂