Thursday, 10 March 2016

Visual Language - Shape and Texture

Shape and Texture

We made some sheets of different colours and textures that we could cut up to create a self portrait.





  • I had fun making the textures, I used coloured inks, charcoal and coloured pencils and applied them in different ways to get some different textures and brush strokes.
  • Wiping the ink onto the page with another piece of paper gave some interesting smeared effects.



  • I did some really quick outlines of shapes to get a feel for how I could make my face.
  • I thought i'd use some bold simple shapes to represent the different features.


  • Textured cut outs give an interesting effect, similar to shape on its own but more exciting.
  • I like this process and could work really well if combined with other types of line work.
  • The rough sketchy textures with the really clean edges creates a nice effect.
  • Making my face out of closed shapes gave an almost tribal appearance. I don't feel like it resembles me a lot but has captured the the basic features.
  • I think if more craft was put into the shaping of features it could be more effective. They look a bit to basic.

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