50 Postcards - Looking at texture

Focusing on constructive criticism and feedback from tutors and peers, I decided to revisit my postcard images and this time, focus on texture. Instead of looking at 50 flat sketches and line drawings, I wanted to think of some simple but effective ways of adding different textures and volume to them - I also worked with light to really enhance the folds and creases made. Within the images directly below, I crumpled, pulled and twisted the paper, which then led to tearing and ripping it.

The image directly above shows just how much volume can be added to a paper where dismantling it and completely changing its shape. The images below are a series of photographs I took where focusing on deconstructing, then reconstructing and combining various drawings. How do the different colours now come to work together? How does the addition of light and shadows contribute to this? The final images to the bottom of the page I focused on making wet - where a lot of the drawings were completed in either ink or paint, I thought adding water would alter their appearance effectively. From here I added force and photographed how the paper looked once I had made it wet and then threw it on the table - the water added shine and the light continued to provide various different shadows to the ruined paper. Interestingly to me, having thrown the final combination of wet images onto the table, all the colours from them faced inwards and can barely be seen within the very last images.

Completing this additonal activity will allow me to progress my projects further by acting as a reminder, where I might forget, to focus on texture, volume and lighting across my work to really enhance and appreciate the endless angles and outcomes.