I like portraiture, but I suck at drawing, so I have never ended up trying to create an artwork from scratch based upon someone's face, however I have always been a fan of Tim Burton and his style.
The way he represents the characters in his pieces is awesome and the way he goes about drawing is different to any other artist, but his naive and eerie approach gives me something to attempt to replicate if I decide to create a portrait style artwork.
Here are some examples of his artworks...





man·hood/Noun.
The state or period of being a man rather than a child.

Based upon this definition, I have chosen to complie an artwork based upon the maturity of man from a child. An expressionist/abstract approach would probably accomodate a wider interpretation of this definition leaving a more diverse range of options open for ideas. Many manhood based artworks encapsulate the hegmonic masculine view upon males within our modern society, and personally I believe the emotion emitted from the pieces are not as moving as those that tend to go against the stereotypical views giving me reason to create an artwork where the male appears to be vulnerable and frail, leaving the audience exposed to the emotive connotation to the work.


To start off Year 12 Visual Art, we are doing a 14 week unit on manhood.
Because we have so much time to complete one artwork in the medium of our choice, I am expecting to produce something very special, enjoy.