BODIES IN FLIGHT.

Here is the start of this piece, due to the scale and the space currently available to me the reproduction isn't great quality, but i endeavour to get some better examples up on here asap. I like the style iv used to draw these, where parts are less detailed or totally undone which contrasts to the areas of high detail. I like the distance between the figures but i think they could also work if they were all connected as if they were a network of body parts?

DIRECTION.

I wondered where i could take my work next, there is definitely something sexual about the image of 2 men from one face. I feel that whilst working with these warped faces the compositions are much more successful when there is more that 1 body. We can make a link from these sexual images to the poem that influenced this project from the start. The key line to this poem being 'We have no time to stand and stare'. My work perhaps suggests that society and culture changes so fast and so dramatically in terms of what is considered acceptable that we have no time to dwell upon agitational subjects such as the modern acceptance of gay/straight equality?

I think this raw display of complicated and varying sexuality could be something to concentrate upon within my work. I hope that these images are not overly comfortable to the eye of the viewer.

Here is the start of my next venture...

CHECKING IN.

Over the last week i have been busy building a website to show some snippets from my visual portfolios. It is near completion and will be coming soon to www.jodieclaregamblen.com !

FINI.

I've finally finished this drawing, and have also produced a quick stop frame animation of its gradual growth. Hopefully this will lead onto other similar studies. I was rather suprised at how enjoyable working to this large scale was, as i am often guilty of becoming sketchbook bound! I would like to try out the same concept with other faces/bodies as i am aware that these will be exhibited, ithink the large scale would look impressive in my graduation show and our following London show 'BRINK'.

WATCH THE ANIMATION HERE...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaf6pknGEfk

Here is a shot from the animation which shows the entire piece...

In this piece the actual image is in brown and white.

I am pleased with the way in which the image developed, i took inspiration for

this piece from a previous piece of work of mine. This is the following image, it shows a human form but the way the piece is less detailed or perhaps unfinished in places makes the image somewhat ambiguous- is this a male or female? Are they sleeping or are they dead? I was keen to translate this style onto my most recent work and so i made the decision to leave parts in a less finished state as i was drawing.

STOP. HAMMERTIME.

So the template has been scaled up and i have begun work on the piece, i'm using dip pen and ink on this so its extremely time consuming due to the scale of the media i am using to draw compared to the scale of the paper, i am currently still working on this (nearly there now!)

I have been thinking about what my work will look like in my graduation show and at the following exhibition 'Brink' that will be held in Brick Lane, i want my work to capture the audience and cause them to ask the question... 'what am i looking at?' Whe

n this image is complete and hopefully looking good, my ambition is to create a series of similar themed yet very different large images that will look great in the up and coming exhibitions.

However, as i have spent a lot of time on this single drawing i made the decision to record my progress by means of a stop frame animation, here are a few photographs and stills from the animation so far...

SCALE UP.

Iv been stuck on the thought of recreating the bodies for the earlier shown face scans, iv been desperate to see what they would look like if we reattach the distorted faces to the bodies upon which they were once attached. Some of the faces were distorted to the point that they looked like they were the faces from 2 separate bodies that had collided and merged into a one faced, two bodied being. Almost as if they were siamese or conjoined twins sharing a face. Another desire of mine is to recreate this idea in high detail on a large scale, possibly life-sized. To make this idea a reality i have gone on a search for some primary research in order to get the scale and body proportions correct, and where better to look than the owner of the warped face. I asked my model to lie in a series of different positions in order to create something that might connect to the face, using the powers of Photoshop i have made a rough template that i can draw from and work into, this is the one i have chosen to start with...

IN MY FAMILY PORTRAIT.

A little side line project. My mother requested i attempted to draw all the members of my immediate family in return for helping me out earlier on in the project (plaster casts). They are not my usual subject matter of choice in terms of the style of pose etc and they don't directly relate to my project but as they are also detailed ink drawings and concern themselves with the human form i thought i would include them in my blog of my final major project. Here are the results...

Terry Gamblen

Andrew Gamblen

Jodie Gamblen

Jean Gamblen

Ross Gamblen

Thomas Gamblen