Traces

For our current college brief  we have been given the title of 'Traces' to interpret it as we see fit. I have chosen a subject very close to my heart, the journey into my my (eventual) gender augmentation into a male, leaving behind the traces of a body that does not belong to me. 
I have done a few drawing techniques for drawing studies so far. Whilst it is minimal right now, I'll be updating this blog as and when my sketch book fills out.

Simple straight line study. I'm sorry for my messy presentation  I don't obsess over neatness, I find it difficult to be expressive and raw if I worry about smudges or whatever.

 Continuous line study.

Gouache study. Semi continuous lines, if that's even a thing? I find the way the two colours conflict each other reflects the raw flesh intertwining with surgical experimentation. I don't know, I'm grasping at straws.

Gouache and ink. I got a little bored and it lead to this study, which may have been more useful that i originally thought. Just daubing the gouache, mixing the colours has created R.E.M like movement, conveying fear.

Ink and water contaminated by gouache. I'm scared of the surgery. Need I say much more?

Hopefully, studying into more detail the surgery, process, rehabilitation stages will make me more confident and enlightened about the benefits of the process of ftm gender reassignment as apposed to just imagining Leatherface in a gown and scalpel...