Major breakthrough

I have trawling my brain all week trying to make this hair thing work but after looking through some random e-zine I found these images, and I thought I don’t necessarily have to ‘DRAW’ hair, by this I mean i do not have to follow the straight lines of hair and how fine or thick hair can be. Instead I have been inspired to do some mark making based on  messy hair.







These images belong to the artist LISA SYLVESTRE you can visit her website HERE for more

I am going to attempt to make fluid hair drawings, I will start off in my sketchbook and then move to larger scale work.

Evaluation

For this project I picked repetition. I focused mainly on human hair. It is very handy because my current workshop is hand processes which has allowed me to work using the hair as my medium. I used the hair to stitch into fabric and sometimes I attempted to weave into the fabric to almost make it part of fabric.

I used a sewing needle to get this effect, I like how the loops are continually repeating themselves  with dishevelled hair. I like the way the tiny grains of hair sat on top fabric, the way the little hair look very delicate but combined with the thick loops, this  led me to my next idea, of  completely messing up the hair, dying it and  then drawing from what's left. I learnt a great deal from hand processes that I will continue to use in the future, that samples do n ot necessarily have to be made fro fabric which I had been doing at the beginning of my project. So far I have making digitalised samples using photoshop.

The image above shows what I have been working on at the moment, zooming into pictures and then reducing colour etc. to see what come of it. I like the transformation from traditional sample (that I had been making) to samples that are more vigorous and have more depth of colour and texture . So far I have been enjoying my project and I intend to do more samples and drawings to fill out my sketchbook. I am going to start working out of my sketch book because it very small and constricting.