p1. PAPER & WIRE SCULPTURES

In my usual work, I predominantly draw precise and detailed artworks using fine liner & biro. I wanted to steer away from this by creating wire & paper sculptures that help me explore form and replicate it in a looser way. By making paper & wire sculptures, I was able to see a less detailed and pretty version of a real life object. By drawing from these sculptures, I then created drawings presented in a more expressive way as I could only see the basic form & details of the plant.  

These wire sculptures opened my mind to creating 3D forms & sculptures, as I really enjoyed using few basic objects to create a replica of a more detailed real life object. This task pushed me to draw without hyper-focusing on tiny details within the plant, and instead focus on creating shape & depth on a more simple level. 
The flower is my favourite one of the two sculptures, as it shows more of a dynamic form due to the way in which the petals bend in different ways, much like a real life flower. I also like the individual pieces of wire that stick up from the centre of the flower to give the impression of pollen. 
The other sculpture, although it is my least favourite, still shows a looser & more natural form through the way it droops down as if coming from a plant pot, compared to the more stiff & still precise flower sculpture. It has more of a real life feel due to its positioning & structure & the different lengths of the longer leaves that fall over the top of it.


These are the drawings I produced from the sculptures. The flower I did in charcoal, white pen & oil pastels, & the leaf I did in oil pastels. Using these media’s it’s hard to stick to detail & precision, so I had to use different drawing techniques to replicate these sculptures.
The flower piece I feel turned out a lot better than the leaf. I used straight lines for every edge of the flower, overlapping some of them which gave a more emotional feel to the piece. I feel this technique worked better with the flower as there is more curved edges & the petals go in different directions unlike the leaf where all the pointed edges point in the same direction. This caused the leaf to look somewhat like a spider, & made the drawing look quite stiff. 
The end of the stem of the flower flows freely and has no set end point, it just blends outwards, whereas the leaf has no stem, or point at which it grew from. It’s just there. 
The way in which the petals are shaded using cross hatching gives the piece more texture & depth & works well with the shape of the plant. The leaf drawing has heavily blended shading which doesn’t work as well & makes it look slightly messy.
Another thing I like about the flower piece is the white pastel & white pen which work together to push forward the lighter parts of the petals & leaf. The swirls I put into the highlights also push forward emotion & expression in this piece showing a different shape compared to the straight & rough lines in the rest of the drawing. 




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