Recreating Illustrator's Work

Fabia Bercsek's "Woman with Lions" illustration

Today at college we recreated illustrator's work. I chose to recreate Fabia Bercsek's "Woman Crying". The media I used was spray paint, felt tip, ink and fine liner. It was hard to replicate the pattern she had created with the spray paint but apart from that it went well. In the original image the spray paint is black but I used green because it was all I had to hand. I'm happy with the end result. I really love the fine pen lines that drape across the face, they project the feeling of sadness and tears. The effect Bercsek used on the eyes creates a haunted look which I think is what attracted me to the illustration in the first place. I like how Bercsek has used a technique that suggests there is hair and I think I have done a good job recreating it.

My reacreation of Fabia Bercsek' "Woman Crying" illustration

Fabia Bercsek is a fashion designer as well as a illustrator. Her preferred method of drawing is freehand and like to uses a variety of media e.g crayon, collage, computer. She describes her work as "intense, truthful, harmonious and decorative". I think her illustrations are intense and beautiful and full of meaning. The two illutrastion I have seen so far look quite dark and haunting.

My reacreation of Stina Persson's "60 s'" illustration

I also chose to recreate another illustration by Stina Persson. This one was a lot simplier and easier to do. For this one I used  ink and coloured pencils. It was quite quick to do because there was less detail to draw. Again I am happy with the illustration. I wanted to develop this drawing further, so I eperimented with diferent media to the see the different effects. I will upload pictures of this at a later date but at the moment my computer won't let me.

I like Stina Persson's illustrations because I love the effects she creates with the inks espeacially on the ilustration below. My favourite way to draw is with sticks dipped in ink and Stina Persson uses the same technique.

 

Third Week of College

Finished researching my first decade (1870s). It was quite a hard decade to do because not alot of significant things happened at that time and I could only find one well known fashion designer, Charles Worth. He popularised the bustle and that was a major trend in that decade. I do like his designs although I would never wear one. They are very lavish and decorative.

I have now started rsearching my secnd decade (1930s). This is a more interesting decade. There were plenty of famous fashion designers then e.g Elsa Schiaparelli, Coco Channel and Norman Hartnell. I particularly liked Elsa Schiaparelli, I find her designs innovative and exciting. Her belief is that fashion is art form and I totally agree with her.

 To get marks on my drawing unit I carried out some observational drawings. I visited Liverpool at the weekend and thought it was a perfect place to carry out the drawings. I visited the Liverpool Museum, where I drew the exhibits. Some I drew of the buildings and monuments around Liverpool.

The first six of the photos below are observational drawing carried out during college time. I'll be doing more observational drawings in the next few weeks and I will upload the Photos on to my blog so you can see my progress.

Second week of college

Pencil Drawing(top)
Drawing with grid method(Middle)
Pen Drawing

I'm in the second week of college and I'm really enjoying it. At the moment we are doing a historical unit and a drawing unit. I'm finding the historical side really interesting, I love learning about past fashions because you can see the influences in today's fashion. I was given a certain decade to research and mine was the 1870's.

Yesterday at college, we did observational drawing exercises. First we use the grid method, to copy an image which was upside down. It helped that it was upside down because when looking at it I didn't see a person (this was what the image was of), I saw lines and marks. I was then taught another method which allowed you to get the proportions right on your drawing. This method is really helpful and I'm going to try and use it all the time.

At first I was told to draw in pencil to build confidence but then on the third drawing I was told to draw in pen. I was less confident with the pen because if you made a mistake you couldn't rub it out like you could with pencil. I still managed to do a good pen drawing even though I was hesitant at first.

Overall I had a good start to the course and can't wait to start on the next part.