Through the Frame
Craft
This particular piece is created solely using pen, with the large majority of the design being created through the use of stippling dots. The original image comes from my own collection from the summer of 2009, and was modified and converted into the tribal design using tracing paper before being transferred over to the final paper. A single .1 black pen was then used to apply the stippling, creating the designs on the figure through the closeness of the dots in specific areas. A straight edge was lastly used to accomplish the frame design around the figure.
Concept
The idea behind this piece stems out from an original issue that had been in my mind for some while, and finally tested at the suggestion of others- if I could create these designs to create animal forms, what is to stop me form being able to apply it successfully to that of human forms? Therefore, I hunted through my photographs for an image that would be interesting to convert into the tribal designs.
This piece was meant to have a large section of negative space behind the figure, as the large part of the focus was meant to be on the person's face. The composition was also meant to be weighted more on a diagonal across the page from the bottom left to top right of the page, and the frame applied as a way of containing the figure, while still allowing it to interact with it as part of it's own world.
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