My favourite technique Sara Fanelli uses, is to create an absurd creature using her drawings and collage techniques, but to then bring them alive using photocopies of eyes. This really makes her characters stand out, and makes them a lot more believeabke to young children. You can imagine a character could exist from nothing more than eyes. What I mean is that as long as a shape has eyes it becomes a character, you can empathise with it. So if her characters include this feature they automatically make the viewer empathise with its emotions.
She does this in most of her work, so I have included several examples.
I have attempted to create a character similar to one of Fanelli's, using a collaged background and photocopied eyes.
This was
my favourite of all of her techniques, I feel like it helped me to bring the
character to life. It fitted well with my own preferred method of working,
which is using pen to draw, and then scanning it and colouring digitally. Although
I am glad I used a collaged background, as it helped merge the two different
styles together nicely.
References:
Fanelli, S. (2012) The onion’s great escape. London: Phaidon Press.
Fanelli, S. (2006) Mythological monsters of ancient Greece. London: Walker Books.
Fanelli, S. (2012) First flight. London, United Kingdom: Red Fox.
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