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..