Soldier

   I especially like the style of drawing i did on this piece and the simple colours. I ripped up some newspaper and used fineliner to draw straight lines and shade in areas by creating block shapes. I thought this was a contrast to the sculpture that inspired it as the figures looks like they are burnt lava corpses and have no straight edges as they are flesh has melted and merged together.
   I focused on the specific figure at the back as they looked as if they are saluting. Once i drew them i thought they looked like a soldier walking in a parade or on a World War 2 poster. With the newspaper pieces the entire piece made me think about how the media coverage during the war was manipulated to make people sign up and not lose hope. The false stories they told covered up the mass losses and torture that it was to live in the trenches as they made men believe it would be fun like a camping trip. That's why the straight edges look clean and appealing like the uniformed, smiling man on a sign up poster, but reality it was like the sculpture, with the cold and injured pain when living in the trenches.

   I really like the drawing style i did for this piece and would like to develop it. I think it would work best with living creatures, like a human as turning it into the straight lines causes them to lose human features and look robotic like. I could also try plants and animals to see what sort of outcome i get. I think it would work best doing a single drawing as drawing this style in an entire scenery may look confusing and lost all together so i would need to be careful with composition.