Right now with this unfinished artwork, I'm planning on using repetition. Like Andy Warhol. He uses repetition to make a photo or an artwork that is very repulsive less shocking once you've seen it again and again and again. Like the photo of a car crash that he had taken. He repeated it again and again and again and after you'd looked at the photo for so long, it wasn't so appalling. I'm using this technique with my dolphin surround in the trash. Except so far I only have half of the original.
Focal point
I think my focal point is the mouth of my dolphin, it catches your eye because it has a lot of different patches of tone and includes some of the darkest spots.
Colour
No colour just yet. I may add some, I'm not sure. Maybe coloured pencils? I might add colour on the next drawings (repeated ones). I'm a little nervous to add colour because I'm scared to mess it up.
How does this artwork read as a series and does it introduce your kaupapa well?
(Trying to understand this to my best... and I'm not sure how to explain, but I'll give it a go)
This is number one of the series. My kaupapa is all about ocean pollution (litter and straight-up trash) and how it affects sea animals. This artwork shows a dolphin surrounded in some trash with a six-pack beer ring caught in its mouth. The next drawings of the series will also show animals caught in some trash or at least surrounded in it.
(Sorry, the camera quality isn't very good, I could've also taken the photo in better lighting)