Side project: Projections

I was experimenting with a few photographs and layering my illustrations on top of them to create an image of a person (in the case myself) with textures of pencil layered on top. I have thought about colours and extracting those colours so that I'm left with a black and white image. The textures of the pencil works best on a greyscale background, this makes it look like the markings are part of the skin and that they outline the human body.

I would like to make this into a side project, maybe ask some of my photography friends to help me with taking photos of people that don't mind showing a bit of skin. And then i'd layer on top some hand drawn textures to give the human body another purpose. 

This would be a nice side project to focus on, but i really don't have time to be doing this at the moment as i have so much university work with deadlines approaching and i haven't done a thing. (Essay wise). 

Collaboration.. well kind of

Photograph: Kaity Jade

Using my body as the canvas as i let my housemate Kaity drip paint all over me for her photography project. I have figured out that i like being the human canvas and that is isn't as ticklish as i thought it would be!

I call it a collaboration because we are both creatives and the only think i contributed to her project was my body.. So i kind of see that as collaborating....
I have never been a model before, I'm normally the person to shy away from a photograph, but i thought this would be a really fun shoot and so i offered up my body in the name of art. I saw her pervious photographs that she had taken, but i wasn't really sure of what to expect (paint wise).

The photos turned out really cool, and i think she developed her project even more and she might has distorted the photographs, or destroyed them, so the final pieces aren't the same photographs she took. I think thats really interesting, once having the photographs and then going on to destroy them to add to the picture. I don't think i could do that with my illustrations, i care too much for them to get ruined.

Photograph: Kaity Jade

Photograph: Kaity Jade