Finally some of my work! - Initial Sketches

Sketch Book Work

So here's my first personal piece of artwork!

At college my first brief was entitled 'Traces'. This we could interpret however we wanted, be it scars, forensics, maps etc. I decided I would work it in a more personal way looking at my traces, such as where I've been educated, where I've lived and my interests and hobbies.This is a quick sketch I did in designing my final piece for my college course. It is a self portrait on my self (it's not great but, it's good enough!) and a skull merged together. So here are a couple of basic and preliminary sketches.

Fine-liner sketch using different techniques

Pencil sketch using different types of techniques

For both sketches I used straight line techniques and continuous line techniques so that the two halves of the image would contrast the different representations of me. I prefer the skull on the fine-liner sketch as it has more tone and looks much darker and Gothic, and I prefer the actual face of the pencil sketch as I like the softer tones and lines. I think when I produce my final piece I will take both of these ideas into account to produce the best of my styles.