The Last of the Scraps

Welp, these two pieces mark the last of my leftover RISD scrap paper that I had been using to do these caricature studies with.


Maybe it's because Freud is so recognizable as an old bald man with a big white beard, but while I was working on this I kept thinking about the images of people we retain and how we choose to remember them. These iconic images of them are burned into our brains and it seems to get harder and harder to recognize them any other way. Also, if you take the name away from a person you realize how much you really rely on it for help in recognizing them. I don't know where I was going with that.

This drawing of Janis Joplin was pretty fun. I don't usually use very bright colors but I had laid down a bright pink ground, that I chose to leave untouched for her glasses, and I think it helped give the drawing a lot of punch that compliments the personality she had. For now I think I'll continue to work with softer, washed out colors but maybe I'll come back to this kind of palette again.