Here are some masks I drew after returning back from Colophon. Just started drawing simple line drawings, at this time I was struggling with too many ideas and a return to drawing was therapeutic, and eased my worries. The initial idea behind them was to continue this idea of pretence. The idea that people create masks for themselves, stories even being made from these masks - made famous by Batman, Star Wars, and I would draw these masks - perhaps colouring them in Photoshop. People use masks to hide their true identity, particularly in gang culture, and I thought this could be an interesting if not a little off direction.
They are nothing special but mark a turning point in my project as a whole, before this I had this idea of creating many small projects to create a body of work - but I found this to be underwhelming and restrictive. I normally involve myself into projects for a while and work into a final process that has meaning, and the short projects did not allow me to do this. They did, however, allow me to play with many techniques and give me ideas to carry on with.
With the shackles released from the short projects I moved on and kept these experiments strictly as development rather than outcomes.
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