For these studies, I began by taking a piece of paper and putting it on top of my cracked leather surface. I then got a pencil and sketched over it quite hard, this revealed the texture underneath the paper and created some nice outcomes:
After this, I used my creations as a reference for some simplified studies. In these I focused on the lines of the cracked leather and the shapes they create:
claire bath
(Leaving replies on various blogs, feel free to continue the chain) Seeing a recreation of the chair to scale out of your paper rubbings would be really interesting. Do you know what you’re doing next with these marks etc?
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Hi Claire, thanks for the comment :))
This acted more as a kind of push to start producing work as I was kind of stuck. I think now I’m going to be persuing a sort of link between the chair and people. Discussing how aging effects both, how each have purpose, their own history/background etc
claire bath
that sounds really interesting – there’s some cool parallels between cracked leather and aged skin too.