Shape

Here are some photos of my attempts to represent a banana through drawings made from cut paper. It took me a little while to get past the obvious ideas and start trying to imbue the drawings with some kind of character but once I loosened up and started cutting out more exaggerated shapes less carefully I ended up with some results I was happy with, and one I was really happy with.

Made from some off-cuts left over from 

other drawings.

   

Attempt at a banana skin which somebody might slip on.

My favourite banana drawing. 

Self Portrait, with emphasis on shape and texture

Here is a drawing of myself made up of cut paper with different textures added using mainly black ink. I am pretty happy with the result, although I always think that my face has several distinct, and thus, easy to caricature features which perhaps makes it a lot easier to create a recognisable representation of myself. I sometimes find it difficult to evaluate such exercises therefore, because it seems that as long as the drawing contains glasses, long hair and a moustache, it will prove an adequate depiction. I also wish that, for this particular drawing, I had played around with shape a bit more and tried to see how far I might push or abstract a depiction of my own face, especially given the fact that, as I just mentioned, if I included the key features I think I could have taken it pretty far and it would still have looked like me. 

I did decide to angle my head a little as
I learned that, often as simple a gesture
as that is where the personality can lie
in an image. I thought it was particularly
needed in this instance as I decided to
eyes.