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Working with Ian Murphy
After looking through Ian Murphy's sketchbooks, he taught us how to do some of his techniques. We ripped shreds of brown paper and newspaper as this was a style of his drawing, We did this to vary the tone in the background and create a rough texture. Ian Murphy also expressed his interest in using words in the background of his work.
Another two of his methods were dripping down diluted blue-based ink and green-based ink or sticking an image face down on paper, then rubbing it with water to reveal the image on the other side.
He recommended gluing tracing paper to sheets at the end, then using sandpaper to tear the surface, and finishing the preparatory work by rubbing graphite powder on it to emphasise the jagged and ripped surface. This was done before drawing.
Our next step was to do small drawings with the aforementioned strips of brown paper and newspaper in the background. We stuck tracing paper on top of the drawings, then sanded them and added graphite powder to create this jagged surface. Murphy provided us with a variety of photos that he had taken on his travels to draw from, but his drawings of the orient had sparked in me an indelible memory of the Tian Tan Buddha ('Golden Buddha') that I had recently seen in Lantau Island (Hong Kong) See my Lantau Island Time-Lapse here.
Deciding I would rather find my own photos from Hong Kong, I drew two small drawings based on the little Buddhas that surround the larger one, as they are more intricate. These Buddha statues were slightly larger than real life-size, and images of them are displayed in the gallery below on the left.
Watch the above video to see the Buddha's from a cinematographer's point of view.
