Screenshots From Video Of Journey
For my first journey I decided to do my walk from the bus station to university, which is roughly a 1 mile walk. I planned a day where I would bring my camera to university and have it hanging around my neck throughout the journey capturing everything I saw from people passing by me, to morning rush hour. In doing this the final result would be unpredictable and the shots I would get would be based purely on chance or luck. This idea of not knowing was rather interesting and i could not wait to watch the video and look for potential photographs.
Journey 1
Journey 2
Journey 3
Journey 4
Journey 5
Journey 6
Journey 7
Journey 8
Getting these stills was very tricky as you had to pause at the correct moment, a millisecond out the whole image could be to blurry or you could lose half of the persons head. It was also raining on that day and you can see many rain drops from my lens but I really like how that has turned out. There is just one thing I would of liked to change about this video that is the fact that it stopped recording in the final minutes and I just wished I could of made it to the studio.
Statement
For my Journey project I have chosen to focus on my journey from the bus station to university as this is only the one journey i take around Leicester and felt it would be fitting seeing as i have to take this journey between the two 10 times a per week. My idea on how I was going to record this journey was through a video, I record it by putting the camera around my neck and videoed the whole walk.
To get some information to draw from I then when through the entire video and took a series of interesting screen shots of people I saw amongst my travels. This then gave me a range of photographs to work from, as they are only screen shots the quality of them is low but I kind of like this effect as it gives a sort of eeriness to them.
I have started off with small drawings in my sketchbook and found the work of Emanuel M. Ologeanu inspiring as i like his use of inks and watercolours mixed with drawing materials. I don't know if I will pursue this much longer as i would really like to try a more realistic approach.
Larger Work
After doing numerous little sketches from stills in my sketchbook I moved on to trying larger scales A4, A1... I used a combination of mediums from pencil - charcoal and ink - acrylic paint.
Waiting (Pencil, Charcoal & Ink)
To start with I tried out drawing in a realistic style capturing as much detail as I could, but instead of doing what I would of ordinarily do when drawing, where I just used average drawing pencils. I decided to incorporate charcoal and drawing ink as these were two mediums i had never used before i started this course. Having found my new fondness for these mediums I felt they would be perfect to add to my drawings as they would create much darker shade then any pencil could ever achieve. To make the image impacting and compelling I also experimented with over exaggerating my highlights to really heightens the contrast between light and dark.
Just Passing (Pencil, Charcoal & Ink)
I also did this one in a similar style as I just wanted to see how the technique would translate to different things such as vehicles and trees. I found working in such a small size very difficult with these two as the heads are about the size of a 1p coin and it was rather tricky adding all the detail especially when using chunky charcoals. I would of course like to try a much bigger version but really do not thing I would of finished it in the time that we had left, these took roughly eight hours each.
Moving On (Pencil, Charcoal, Ink & Acrylic Paint)
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After my other pieces I thought I shall experiment more and try to be more free with my style as I am often very precious with my work and precious can be boring after several hours. This one was done on A1 paper and was done with much less control, but i did firstly started out by mapping out a few simple straight lines to give me direction and help with getting the scale proportions right. I then decided it would be best to use sorter mediums such as pencils and willow charcoal for the background as i really wanted to create a three dimensional affect. To make the drawing come to life I wanted really present bridge and railing and felt that a solid material such as paint would be the perfect way to create a strong impacting foreground.
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I had also drew a young man on a separate piece of paper who is present it the photo, but once I added him it just did not seem right and I rather preferred the drawing without him in it. Before I had decided that I did not like it I had drawn highlights and shadows around which are still present in the draw. I still kept the lines those as in shows that there was someone there at one point or another but they had just moved on, which is were I got the inspiration for the title of this piece "Moving On”.
