Line – Friedricebucket

After 4 weeks of research, drawing, cutting and pasting, I am proud to present to you my Final work for submission.

Just to sum up my overall experience, i feel that i have accomplished the designs that i have set out to do and i am satisfied with my work. I wanted my work to showcase my ” usual” drawing style and thus, the mediums i have chosen for the assignment are mainly graphite, charcoal, ink and Chinese ink. On top of that, because i am accustomed to drawing rather than design, i found abstract work to be a challenge and so, i have decided to take a more simplified and minimal approach.

From my designs, you can observe that my designs hardly fill the entire frame. As part of the minimalist approach, i have decided to have the lines interact with the spaces in the individual strips as i believe that the spaces play an integral role of carrying the meaning behind the emotions. Also, this give greater contrast to the subjects which are the lines. i believe that the way you manipulate a single line can be effective enough in expressing the artist’s, rather than having complex shapes or patterns.

As for my execution of ideas, it was a two-pronged approach for me. The first being, immersing myself into that emotion and just create lines out of instinct. These emotions are the ones which you can relate to. i like this approach as it is quite an accurate depiction of the emotion i am working on and you will never know how it turns out till you finished it. I did this for emotions like aggressive, indecisive and awkward.

Another approach being inspirations from the real world. What i mean by that is that i draw similarities between a particular emotion and real world objects that are normally associated with the emotion. I carefully studied the lines that represent the object or the lines that the object possesses and utilize the same concept for my strips. Take psychotic for example. Psychotic remind me of nerves and nervous breakdowns and thus, i tried to incorporate lines in my strip that looks like strands of nerves being pulled. Another case being sensual, where i took the strong curves in women bodies and have them drawn on the strips. I then create a smudge to bring out the contrast and accentuates the curvature of the lines.

And that is how i did my project: simple, minimal and elegant. Or at least i felt that way 🙂 ENJOY!!!