100 HEADS

100 Heads was a personal project dedicated to learning the capabilities of Photoshop's available tools, and how they can be used in combination with one another to create effects in my own drawings. I hoped that 100 would be enough to exhaust the possibilities, but found toward the end that I could have kept going - and may continue to create more Heads in my spare time.

HEAD 000

The starting point was this sketchbook drawing I created in 2019, which loosely referenced a dilapidated sculpture I found in a museum. The top-left image was a reflection on its glass case.

HEAD 001

Summer of 2020, I participated in Overland Artwork's SHELTER Residency Program, which was a self-initiated, at-home program during the lockdown. I used a projector to enlarge the sketch onto paper, traced the outline, and drew a refined image based off of the sketch.

The drawing is about 20"x20", graphite. I took it into photoshop and masked the negative space surrounding it.

After that, I began manipulating the drawing digitally, and logging each edit into a word document to track my actions.

001 - 100

 

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