Looking at Julian Opie as inspiration for the sketches we are doing of each person we spoke to.
Julian Opie was born in London in 1958 and attended Goldsmith's College of Art from 1979 to 1982 and is one of the UK's best known contemporary artists.
Initially taking photographs of his subject matter (people, landscapes or still lives) he then digitally manipulates the photographs and constructs his images by a process of elimination and distillation, and through this practice has developed a concise and reductive formal language.
What I like about Opie's style is the simplicity of it, in the image above everyones facial features such as their eyes, nose and mouth are similar yet each person manages to look different. I want to try an capture this in my own drawings as I think it is sensitive way to represent the homeless people we spoke to. The drawings won't look like exact representations as they are from memory as we couldn't take pictures of the people at the time. However if someone was to go to the location that the booklet says a specific person is at they would be able to use the drawing to help them recognise the person.
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