Blind Contour

Our most recent assignment we had to do blind contour drawings; two hands, our own face, and tablemates face. After that we were told to complete and connect the drawings in any way that we felt fit. With one of my hands there was a scribble off that I saw as a string, and the bottom face looked very majestic/ magical. Due to my high-key obsession with fantasy novels (or shows or movies) it automatically registered as a kind of ominous prophecy vibe. I used a thin pen and watercolors to add the potion bottles, flowers and details to the original drawings.

Originally the project wasn’t going to have as much color, I had planned on it being more following the dark and ominous feeling that I had wanted to portray. I feel like the final product somewhat has some feeling of movement with the flowing hair on the lower most face, and the loosely suspended potion bottles. There is also the whole situation with the organic foreground and geometric background. There is a lot of white space between all of the elements which kind of creates a barrier or dissociates the different objects/ shapes from each other. Can’t really decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

The way I have it in my head the face farthest to the bottom of the drawing is maybe the one who is foreseeing the situation to come. The potion bottles and face breaking is a warning that something is going to get way out of hand and the flowers are reassuring that there will be an upside to whatever oncoming chaos is going to happen. As a whole I appreciate the process of the assignment but I’m low-key dissatisfied with the final creation. Not really because I think it looks bad, I just had a different plan for it. I planned for the midground and background to be all filled up with clouds and have the bottom face to be emerging out of them (as well as the hands and other face. I feel like I took a really unpredictable journey through the project; this applies to both not knowing what we were going to do with the contour drawings and not knowing how the editing stages were going to make it look like at the end. If I was only able to change one thing about it, I would add to the background because the whitespace makes it feel kind of incomplete.