Onform Sketches

For my third Individual Brief, I decided to do Onform, because I really loved the sound of it. Some other people on my course had said how enjoyable it was, so I thought I'd give it a go! Onform is a weekly challenge set up by Karoline Pietrowski. Each week a new shape is released which is available for download. The challenge is simple, to draw something over this shape, to turn it into something new. The rules are simple, the shape can not be rotated or changed in size, and the only colours that can be used are black and white! My aim was to produce at least ten different drawings for this brief.


Week 1. 

This first shape sparked some ideas off pretty quickly, straight away the image that kept coming to my mind was something side on, to me it looked like a head with bobbed hair, so I decided to go with this. I kept it quite simple, but did quite a lot of experimenting with different opacities of black and white, as well as differently proportioned facial features.







Week 2.

The second shape here on the left, triggered a lot of ideas, most of them either to do with hills and mountains or people with big bellies! After seeing this be done quite a lot by other people, I decided to go down the BIG NOSE route. As an artist I often draw faces side on, I don't know why, this is just something I have done a lot of. And it was also around the time of completing this challenge that I realised my love for character design, so I tried to apply this to this shape. I love an excuse to draw a big nose.


Week 3.

This third challenge made me realise that I had focused on the theme of faces a lot, so it was time to produce something that wasn't a face! This shape made me see a lot of things, a jellyfish, a cake, a turtle, but the object that I wanted to draw the most was an ice cream, purely because an ice cream of this colour is some what odd, so why not?







Week 4.

This shape is one I actually struggled with quite a bit, and after looking online to try and get some inspiration, I noticed that a lot of other people had chosen to use the shape as an outline for long flowing hair, with  face in the centre. Once again, the kind of image that was coming into my head was a side on face with a large nose, possibly quite a snobby looking character. Although I had already produced faces from side on, I decided that as long as each face was clearly a different character, there wouldn't be a problem. Also, I liked having a theme running through them.

Week 5.

The idea for shape number five arose much faster than some of my previous ideas. Once again, I thought BIG NOSE! Whilst I was sketching and playing around, I thought to myself that this could quite easily be turned into something from Night Fever, so this is what I went for!