On receiving the task of drawing 10 faces without looking at our paper I knew that it wasn’t going to be easy. I found it very interesting that our brain would open up to new and unused parts when doing this. It challenges your ability to know where your pen is, where the last line you drew was and where it needs to be next. As someone who really enjoys portraiture I think that these one line drawings will give me a new perspective of how a face doesn’t need to have an exact likeness to look like a person or evoke emotion. As I went on I found that I could do one face in pen between 10 and 30 seconds, and my confidence with placement got gradually better too. I began to understand where my pen was and where it needed to go next. I really like the look of the overlapped drawings, I think that the different flesh toned markers made it unique and stand out from one another.
I did 3 wire faces with the drawings that I had completed. Two of these faces are 2 dimensional and one is 3 dimensional. The first one that you can see focuses on the morphing of two faces and I think that this was quite a nice approach, I found that taping the wire to the paper as I was going allowed me to get a flat sculpture of the drawing that I had done. The sculp on the far right is my least favourite, it is the 3d sculp and it focuses on one face being slightly offset from the one in front, they are connected at the chin and slowly spread out towards the top, making them look like they are being peeled apart. The middle sculpt was my first and favourite, I really like how simple it is and the inclusion of the mask really helps to simplify the face further. I enjoyed doing these small sculptures and they took 3-5 minutes each.
