Different direction

I'd found with my drawing project that I hit a dead end with what I was doing. I felt like there was nothing more I could explore or develop with the line drawings and became very stuck as what to do next. I tried different sorts of ways of creating faces, but I wasn't happy with anything I produced ad felt like I was severely diverting from the original intention of my project.

I wanted to go back to exploring the relationship between lines and something as organic as faces. I came up with the idea of instead of creating cross over lines from different directions, using vertical parallel lines. Lines which never cross but instead are layered on top of each other to create the impression of a face.

I did a first attempt using biro on tracing paper. I was extremely pleased with the outcome. It was the first piece of work I was sincerely happy with in a long time. It's still using lines but is a different exploration from what I've been previously doing. I carried on in this media, finding that some of the outcomes worked really well, while some were not as successful. I'm not sure f there is a pattern or its just that sometimes the face I'm using doesn't work.

My next idea was to try and do the same thing but with using horizontal parallel lines instead. My first attempt at dong this was creating a face with minimal features, to try and create a sense of detachment. I only shaded n the background, his hair and his glasses. This was quite effective, it created something very stylised and almost looked like one of Julian Opie's computer drawings. Yet I'm not sure if it looked too much like a design and not very much like a drawing. So I decided to go back to creating layers of lines, and found them to be very intriguing