'Dove real beauty sketches'

During our lesson we experimented with drawing using different techniques we weren't as comfortable with, for example drawing with our wrong hand or drawing from what we could feel without seeing it. I enjoyed this exercise as it allowed me to think more about textures and detail rather then the object as a whole. Although the outcome didn't necessarily look like what i was drawing, i discovered textures i wouldn't of found if i was looking at the object.

Drawing my own face with my eyes closed,  feeling for texture. Oil Pastils. 5 minute sketches overlapped.

Given an object whilst my eyes were closed (a shell).  Drawing the textures and shapes i could feel.  Pencil.  5 minutes. 

Washing up brush.  Pencil drawing.  5 minutes eyes closed.

These exercises reminded me of a 'Dove' advertisement i had seen. 'Dove real beauty sketches' were created by a forensic artist who had worked for the police. He got women to sit next to him behind a curtain and without seeing there faces asked them to describe themselves whilst he drew them. He then asked someone else who had been sat with them to describe the same person and drew them again. The outcome was very interesting, how different the two pictures were. The person describing themselves had picked out all their worst points whereas the other person picked out all the best. I liked how his way of working showed two peoples perspectives of the same object.

'Dove real beauty sketches' - Watch here

 

I think this idea would be more interesting if he used different materials, colours and created more texture in his work as all of this series are in pencil.