Things I like #5

As a former art student I have looked at many artists and had to write
long
boring
meaningless
Studies on the separate practitioners.

This would normally consist of a double page spread of random facts about a particular artist e.g birth place, education, religion, what their guilty pleasures were...

okay maybe not the last one but you get the point

Normally these studies would be something that would take an hour to do and I would normally throw a sulk when my art teacher told me to do one...

I didn't like my A-level art teacher
She said I would only look at getting a C/D in my results for A2
WELL GUESS WHAT MISS A, I ENDED UP GETTING A B, SOOOO

 

Off topic... 

Anyway there was one artist that I actually did one artist study on a guy that not many people have heard of that I really found fascinating 

  

This Artist was Kerby Rosanes 

His work is influenced by nature and machinery with a sprinkle of steampunk 

(due to his work including clocks)  

 

He was definalty my favourite artist, nd probably still is. 

I loved the deeper meaning of some of his work and the detail. 

The detail which I can fully appreciate because for every artist we studied we had to produce a copy of one of their pieces, and because A-level art James was determined to prove his teachers wrong he chose to do one of the most detailed pieces. 

(It was actually the whale one above that a I copied) 

(Here is my copy below) 

Sorry that its at an angle 

But this was one of my favourite pieces to do even though it was so time consuming 

It inspired me to create one of my art styles which I still practice sometimes to this day

Which is the "human in the machine" 

I know cute name right 

Here are some examples 

Model: Phoebe

Model: Maryke

The idea is to use Kerby's use of mechanical detail but in my style (less complex) and combine it with the recognisable features of the human face. All of the face would be almost robotic apart from the eyes. Because the eyes to me show the most emotion, which is a human thing 

Hence the Human in the machine. 

My main goal was to keep the face recognisable to the people who knew the models. 

This ACTUALLY WORKED

Most if not all of the people that I showed the images to (who at least knew my friends in the images) Recognised the subjects with no clues

I miss them :'(