Ghosts in the College

After first trying out the new method of describing people moving through space on the smaller tracing paper I immediately wanted to go bigger. Lets admit it, size matters. So I borrowed my dads projector and kept the same technique of slowing down the video just on a much larger canvas. It got an awful lot more fun very quickly. With this bigger screen it's easier to let my arm go wild and move naturally and swiftly, which produced some of my favorite work so far.

This is one person, coming in from outside and standing, for a moment, right beside my camera.

This is several people as they walk by the camera. Not all at once. But over a period of about 10 minutes.

These ghost like figures are much more interesting than the arrows as they actually describe the space without the space being present. Distance can be seen as the figures get smaller, direction and even speed can be seen by how far apart the lines become. I like how it's all one figure but they're all seperate at the same time. One leg often becomes apart of two figures, connecting the two. I also love how versatile they are. It's very simple to depict a line in many different ways. So far I'v used wire and rope as a line. But I want to try using a sewing machine on fabric, electrical tape and even try making some 3D pieces. 

2 continuous pieces of rope. Going in opposite directions. I like how it seems they were just laid there in  quick pattern.

A basic attempt at a 3D, wire version.

These are wire sort of stitched into the cardboard to show someone going down a stairs.

Today I had the privilege to take part in a life drawing class looking at movement. It seemed to perfectly fit into my project so well I just had to try. it focused on what the model (a dancer) was doing more than what she looked like. The longest pose we did lasted just 1 minutes. The shortest was 10 seconds. So in those lengths there really wasn't time for detail.

This is one of the first I did, there's a few poses there. Each erased  then another is added on top.  I think the poses lasted a minute.

This is more a representation of what she's doing, each pose lasted 10 seconds each (i think). One foot would stay in the same place as it was in in the last pose and that was our starting off point. 

This is the last one I did for the day. Again the foot stayed in the same position, connecting the bodies, but we had a minute for each pose. It was difficult to get back into including any kind of detail after scribbling for an hour and a half.