There's a new meme in town, all about dusting off old images from our pasts, started by Claire, who provided a handy button for participants...
I had a great time looking through long-neglected image files, searching for something to share. The faces above are from 2002, during a brief but passionate affair with real paints and canvas. They have a significance which I will get to in a moment. I had this nutty idea that I wanted to paint 1000 faces. I even registered the domain name 1000-faces.com. I was fascinated by the variations in features, and arrived at a sort of visual shorthand to capture the nuances in a graphic way. I'm embarrassed to admit how few I actually completed... I think it was a couple dozen or so. The reason I got sidetracked is the significant part.
For my regular illustration jobs, I was using the computer then, but I hadn't yet gained any confidence using my graphics tablet. I still did sketches in pencil, drew the line work in pen, scanned that and added color in Photoshop. But I thought for the faces I could use the computer to work out color and such before picking up my brush. (I really wanted them to work graphically as a group, its the designer in me I guess) One day while working out some color ideas, I started sketching on the tablet and realized my synapses had made the connection and I could sketch freely on the tablet while looking at the screen. At that point my focus wheeled away from paints and brushes, to pixels and bytes, and I've been working totally digitally ever since.
But not before painting this sweet lady:
She's kind of special. I blogged a bit about her story here.
Anywho, that's todays peek into the archives. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Cheers,
Jenny
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