Exploring Black and White

 INITIAL IDEAS

- Subvert the colour psychology

- Portray black/dark as good, and white/light as bad

- Play around with mediums and techniques and illustrate as many as possible

EXPLORATION

Sexiness - acrylic paint, biro (black)

Lightning - acrylic paint (white)

Blinding light/The Sun - acrylic paint (white)

Space - acrylic paint (black)

Blindness - acrylic paint, coloured pencils, brush pen (white)

Privilege - posca pen, brush pen (white)

Padded cell - markers, posca pen (white)

Friendly pets - acrylic paint, silver gel pen (black)

Natural black diamonds - acrylic paint, posca pen, coloured pencils (black)

Grief - acrylic paint (white)

Tattoos - brush pen, fineliner (black)

PARALLELS

- Started with subverting colour psychology (red marker)

- Found there were certain words, concepts, and ideas that paralleled each other (blue marker)

- Same meaning, opposite, visually represented the same way, etc.

- Started sketching various concepts that paralleled each other

- Ended up choosing following:

- Fainting/blindness

- Empowerment/ownership

- Dark/light

- Grief and loss 

 

 

Post-it notes lifted

FINAL THOUGHTS

- Both bodies will be illustrated in the same position to add clarity that links the two notebooks

- One garter being pulled on by own hands, one being pulled off by another's hands

- Body language can be confident vs. guarded

- Dark vs. light needs more visual parallels

- Going down the route of liberation from the dark vs. trapped in the light

- Turning on the light to reveal the dark was safe, shut into a white torture room where the light messes with the brain

- Want to give the dreamlike feel of The Never-ending Story's infamous horse scene

- Taking inspiration from Duck, Death, and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch - the black cat (omen of death) will deliver a white horse (omen of death) to his death in a muddy river (omen of death)

- The only one of the four stories to be the same across two notebooks