Collaboration Installation

FOLIO GALLERY INSTALLATION PIECE 

INTRO 

We worked in groups to create a collaborative art installation for the folio gallery for Illustration for Commercial Application.

We were split into groups of five and four to work towards a collaborative final piece and worked towards creating our own final idea based on the People and Characters section of our module which is based on the study of people through studio workshops, performance drawing, reportage, life drawing practice and print room workshops. 

We began working towards our goal by sitting down and drawing all of our ideas out onto a A2 sketchbook, 

We came up with a few varied ideas such as characterizing people we knew into superhero's, pirates and supervillians, and doing each other as characters. We wanted to embody each of our art styles into each others work too so we tried drawing over each others drawings too, and drew each other from life,

We had some problems within the group on which idea to choose as one of us wasn't there for the brain storm but after some deliberating we chose pirates for our final idea.

Lauren created the three main characters for the pirates which were her own outlook on Davy Jones and his crew.

Lucinda created the fish people that were based on Sirens which were thought to lure and drag men to their deaths. 

Josie did the jellyfish and sea creatures, and some of the pirates

Carlie did fish and mermaids. 

I created the Kraken as our sea monster which was going to be right at the top of the wall and trailing onto the ceiling. 

We deliberated whether or not to have colour in our designs but decided against it as the black and white had a nice effect and we used our time to add more detail into the drawings instead for a better effect and look. 

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM OUR PIECE

I used Faber-Castell pens in B for this design and they go on really well on walls and are good to draw with too because of the difference in nib sizes. They also paint over easily and don't mix with water as other fine liners do.