The Outsider's First Stages of Development

 I have gotten myself well under way with this module and can again congratulate myself for filling in another sketchbook. As I said in the previous post, I collected a range of imagery to fuel my development in which to respond from. My initial approach is to just play around in my sketchbook and begin to see things that I like and think are necessary for further development.

Here are a few images taken from my book:

 I have managed to attain an interesting and complimentary range of media within these images. My combination of scratchy line and, either subtle or bold colours, undertakes an unsettled presentation. I have played with various types of media including: pencil, pencil crayons, nib and ink, oil pastels, graphite and marker pen to express a hybrid approach.
 Each image attains a cartoon-like quality which is always very present in my work. The work is also figurative in that it centres around an almost-human-like quality. The figures as I said appear to be exaggerated in appearance, but they clearly express a human-likeness. I work in this way because I feel I can summon clearer expression in the figure's face.
 The images appear abstract which is something fairly new to my way of working. They all seem to evoke a mood of isolation or an emotional weight of judgement from others. Some depict a search for identity and some even touch upon the belief in god. Mainly, they all possess questions to life and why we're here. This relates to what I intend to write about in my dissertation: post-modernism and the human condition.