Agyness Deyn

Here's a drawing of Agyness Deyn that I finally finished yesterday (which I really need to take a clearer picture of)..



I started off by printing the original image out onto 12 pieces of A4 paper..

For each piece of A4 I cut off a strip of pixels and copied each pixel out using a 4B pencil depending what shade the pixel was. I then continued to cut out the rest of the strips of pixels until each A4 piece of paper was copied out. Here are two pictures showing the way I blue-tacked the paper down to cut the strips away and copy out..

..and here are a couple of pictures of the pixels close up..

I'm actually quite pleasure with how it turned out in the end, though I do think the hair and lips ended up a bit rubbish. I'm also a bit annoyed about her jacket because I was gonna shade it grey but it was really difficult to do so because it kept ending up so patchy so I just left it white which makes it look like I've still not finished..
The next time I try this technique I'll probably use felt-tips and create a coloured image instead. I'll also probably take my own picture or use somebody else's with permission next time because I just found the one I used this time on the internet somewhere and it doesn't say who took it so I can't really credit or contact whoever took it. Seems like this one will just have to stay in my portfolio..

Young Photographer Awards

Last December I went to the awards ceremony for the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2008 at the Tower of London after being one of the 33 shortlisted entries. I ended up coming as a runner-up in the 12-18 category and won an Olympus camera, a framed copy of my photo and some other stuff. Here's a picture of me (2nd from the left on the back row) and the other finalists on stage..

..and here's the photo that I entered..

..and here are two videos that I just found that I'm lingering about in..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQPblISkbc

http://www.bsn.org.uk/view_all.php?id=14691

Art

Hey to anyone who's actually reading this. My name's Jake, I'm 18 and from Manchester. I'm really interested in art so I've decided to use this blog which I seem to have abandoned for years to post pictures of the work I've made, pictures of other artists that I like and probably just anything else that I find interesting. I also like to do a bit of photography but I have a flickr page for that which should be on the side somewhere..