The second part of a six week project during my last year at university, where the first half was a written report on a given art movement. For the practical bit of the project we were to apply elements from the art movement into our technique or manner, making three cover illustrations for the Little White Lies magazine.
The art movement I researched was Art Concrete. Since the rules of that art movement was very strict and 100% abstract, I chose to be inspired by Theo van Doesburg´s drawings of architecture (dimensions and planes) and Piet Mondrian´s attitude toward the relationship between shape and background. He said he used (primary) colours to define shapes and greyscale/black/white to describe depth and background. Instead of colours I went about it with hatching, and the density of the hatching. I fragmented the portraits to imply a sense of different perspectives and dimensions. The typography is also handdrawn, and based on a font designed by Theo van Doesburg (founder of De Stijl and Art Concrete.)
Originals measure A3, and were drawn with Micron Archival Ink pens (0,1mm and 0,3 mm.) Each piece took about 8 hours, from sketch to clean PSD file.
