For Research I firstly drew objects that I affiliate with people such as bottles, scissors, microphones etc.. Then I sketched from life and from photographs the people in my life that I associate objects with. I did these drawings in a linear style like that of David Hockney and slightly more detailed drawings like that of David Epstein.
Developing my work I tried different ways of combining the objects and people together to demonstrate that they were connected. At first I drew the objects directly onto the portraits of people however I felt that the extent of lines made it too harsh. So I experimented with using tracing paper, inspired by the work of Francis Alys, and acetate. Furthermore I drew the people on the real life physical objects that I associated them with, though I realised later that this was not worth pursuing as some objects would be incredibly hard to draw on top of.
So I revisited the idea of drawing objects on top of the portraits of people and found that some of the facial features fit inside the object as a sort of frame. So I drew a partial portrait in the composition of the object that I associated them with. I found that doing this in a line drawing lacked depth so I pursued the drawing in a more detailed way like that of Jacob Epstein. This is what I did for my final piece.
