Work in progress
I started manipulating photographs from magazines and flyers (3th line), change their meaning. No longer this person represents someone nice and happy showing off clothes, but they change into someone else. By adapting colour radically and add other 'objects' I'd like to take away what's there, and leave an uncomfortable off balance image. No more perfection.
This year I started drawing again in my spare time, drawing portraits of famous people, people who are always in the spotlight. I always liked doing this, for no reason at all.. Now, I think differently about this, because, I don't get the satisfaction out of drawing a regular person as much as drawing a celebrity. The thing is, these people have to be perfect to the outside world. They have some kind of mask on, they always look perfect, and somehow, in my work, when I photograph or draw, or paint, I always work up to that certain point to have the technique and everything, perfect. I'm sort of fascinated by this idea of perfection. Photographs have to be tight, sharp and bright. Drawings have to be realistic. Why?? I figured I expect the same thing of people. I'm struggling in my life to trust other people and to let them into my life, because I got so disappointed. But perhaps my standards are too high? I may expect too much out of others. Everyone is flawed, including me. And I know that whenever I look at art, the work is so much more interesting when something's off.. When it's not perfectly put together, it fits and it still feels correct.
Somehow I challenged myself to draw some portraits and make them look as realistic as possible, but not totally. During my portrait drawings I got to draw people at the train station and in the park near the academy. I wanted to know how far I could go, leaving lines and shades out to still be able to see the drawing was a person. So, perhaps there's a way to combine this. However, I'd like to take essential elements from someone's expression and transfer this in just a line, without the urge to make it look perfect.
Other fanart drawings can be found here: http://missrowean.deviantart.com/gallery/8575537
