"The World's Voice" Drawing Sheet

"The World's Voice" was a project based on people's attitudes towards social issues that happen all around the world. This drawing sheet was a starting point of my project. I used this sheet to explore my initial ideas and medias that would work well in a final graphics piece. Medias that were used in this piece consist of fine liner pen. ink, mono printing and watercolours. This piece was created on a A1 size sheet.

"The World's Voice" Image Manipulations

After researching more in depth into "The World's Voice" project I realised that I had to use a figurative in my illustrations and final graphic work to put across a more striking image and message. For my primary resource, I took photos of people which linked to social issues such as: poverty, greed and addiction. My photographs were then manipulated through Photoshop and layered onto hand made backgrounds which were scanned through.

"The World's Voice" Hand Manipulations

Through the development of my project "The World's Voice" I began to hand manipulate my primary and secondary images that I would use in my final outcomes. My final outcomes consist of a series of graphic enhanced illustrations that would be used in a book to communicate the social issues. I used many techniques in these hand manipulations such as: mono printing, collage, dark room experiments, drawing, stick and ink, acrylic transfer and printing on acetate. This piece is on a A1 size sheet. 



"The World's Voice" Composition Testing

Through the process of my project, I thought it was important to test compositions so I knew what pictures worked well with each other. This process of testing different medias together gave me ideas in how to combine my illustrations with photographic resources. Most of these tests consist of my hand manipulations layered with images.

"The World's Voice" Final Pieces

These are a few of my final graphics that will be published in the book "The World's Voice". these graphics started as a hand drawn illustration that was drawn in a stencil-like style because it stands out and is more contrasting amongst the other images. My hand illustrations were drawn with fine liners and paint. I created explosive backgrounds which link to the social issue which it's communicating, whether that's through the use of colour or texture. These hand illustrations where then scanned through to a computer where they were manipulated further with my images sources into a final graphics piece.

"Body Language" Figure Drawings

The idea of these three figure drawings was not to capture the detail of the body but the energy and structure. The three techniques that were used where; charcoal and chalk, dribble and stick and ink. All these drawings are very expressive and loose in control as there was a 10-15 minute time limit on each figure. Each drawing was at a large scale- slightly smaller than a A1.  

"Body Language" Figure Paintings

A1 Finger Painting

A1 Impasto

The idea of these two paintings was to capture the energy and expression through the figure using colour and texture. These two painting techniques are very loose and capture every stroke of paint which creates movement within the painting. These studies where created in 1-2 hours, they helped me to understand the body form from a different perspective and how texture and colour influenced the mood and emotion.