"I like to draw stuff sometimes..."

I learnt this technique while I was in high school, in grade 10. I really liked the finished effect, so I have carried on producing these "Word Drawings". Over the years of practice I have refined my technique and I am happier and happier with how they are turning out.
 These works are better viewed from a distance as the words group together and create the image better from afar; close up the detail is lost slightly, but the viewer is able to read the words that I have used to make up the image. This effect is intentional.

Close up view

This is my latest work. I produced it one an A2 size and I used  a normal ball point pen.

Composition Photos

Coke Bottle Girl

 Ok, so we had to take pairs of photos that had some kind of simularity; whether it was colour, composition, texture or pattern it didn't matter.
This coke bottle pair in my opinion is very avant garde. I likened the girl's curves to the coke bottle. I also found the colours that she was wearing and the colours of the vending machine a simularity.


Thembi's Doo

My friend has a very edgey and "over-the-top" hairstyle. I was desperate to find a flower that looked like her hair. I was thinking of an azalea, but I couldn't find any. I likened the rock and its colour to Thembi's complexion. The shape of the bush has a very similar shape to the shape of her hairstyle.



Fire Extinguishers

This was a very straight forward simularity, that's what caught my attention...the simplicity of this compostion.