Project 1.1 : alterations/layering

I am away from the office space for a week but took my sketchbook with me, wanting to redraw the earlier drawing and reposition it further.

Over the past couple of days I made this small series, moving between the sketchbook and the camera:

isolating the left arm element on paper, the rephotographing with more of the dress and my right elbow

re-drawing the photograph from above on the next sketchbook page, rephotographing to take in a bit of the sofa as context

the redrawing above has rubbed off/ transferred some of the graphite on the earlier drawing (later I will rub out the trace above the shape)

I find this process offers a series of possibilities:

• to keep adding and infusing my own hand in this and thereby creating a series of meta-narratives on top of the initial observation
• this process can be pushed much further (just now, on upload, I realise that that the WP processing of the initial photograph adds some yellow shapes on the top of the sketchbook page, this would be a way to move into colour)
• I am getting more familiar with the mechanical pencil and the thin-papered notebook, the third drawing (the middle drawing above) has a range of different marks not employed before and starts to feel a bit more fluid
• the paper rubs through/ transfers easily through pressure: I had noticed this earlier but in this one observed and included it in the process explicitly.

In terms of the coursework project I realise how keen I am on the edge of the paper: the drawings are rather centrifugal in weighting: the edges more carefully worked, the objects deliberately cut off. I hadn’t noticed this interest before but want to develop it more fully over the next projects.

[Part of me thinks that this concludes the first project, but I will stick with it a little longer or perhaps return to it; in some ways it merely feels as a starting point (and I still haven’t drawn all that much!), but perhaps a loop is in order > I still think I would like to use the site for the assignment work and will need to explore it further still and will try and see how that can happen throughout the next projects also]