Moving on from our first little project we have continued exploring different methods we can incorporate into portraits. This time around rather than using available scrap materials we where advised to see what we could achieve with just packing cardboard and acrylic.
My chosen portraits to work from where of the worn elderly Gentleman above in A4 and of the highly masculine gentleman below in A3.
To start we began tracing the reference images planning out each layer of the face.
So to best know what areas would be more pronounced when we move to the next stage of building our pieces up.
Now that we have our maps of the faces it was just a case of using the drawn shapes to create stencils for cutting the card.
Layering the pieces upon each other adding depth and character to the piece.
Our next stage was on deciding our colour pallete and going back to our initial traces.
For the elderly gentleman i tried to restrict myself to cold colours to put emphasis on his age, using grays and blues being almost corpse like.
As for the masculine chap i took allot of colour inspiration from abdulrazaq awofesos’ work, he’s the artist we studied during this project and i went in the complete opposite direction of the first piece, deciding on warm and vibrant colours to portray strength and energy.
Then it was time to put brush to card and finish. In the end i decided to leave the eyes out of my works as the brief of “Who am i?” left me with profound thought that it would add them with some mystery and yet can still feel the age and energy in the other.
