The title of the brief is through the looking glass, and is a study of human form, for this project i wanted to look at soldiers and war, attacking the subject from multiple angles.
This is a piece of acetate with my ideas on, the reason for tieing the acetate into the book, is to coincide with the idea of through the looking glass.
This is a mind map of the areas of what i could look into and different issues I could address
Started with some research on both war artists and the idea of alter ego's to present the human form and personality.
I've begun sketching from photographs of both images from websites, books and images of friends I have in the army.
I want to use different media, so in this selection of imagery I have used ink on emulsion, and wax paper with paint and ink.
The next set of images both use ink, but on different surfaces (brown paper and cartridge paper.
This is where i am currently in the project, This is the idea of through the looking glass, to see if the image you see alters with perception, soldiers can be seen as heroes or killers depending what side you see them from. Again i have used acetate as a means of creating the glass/mirror like effect.
I have started looking on the Imperial war museum website, to look into the other war artists such as Linda Kitson and Paul Nash, who's work is quick, sketchy and mostly monochromatic, which is the style i enjoy working with. Thier work will inspire my own technique to flurish further, and i plan to do drawings that are not as controlled as previous ones.
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