Picturing Time

Back at Uni we were given our first brief, a competition called picturing time for the Clockmakers Society in London where we had to find any way of illustrating time and can submit any number of entries.

I delved straight into my first idea which was to create a sort of fashion timeline, since I love drawing girls and outfits. Choosing four or so different dressed women from different eras. I started with a rococo style 17th century marie antionette sort of figure, drawing a clock also from that era and trying to match the style.. the idea to later match them up in photoshop.

I scanned them into the computer and changed the size to make the clock the main piece in the picture and quickly added some colours of that era to give it the right feel to the time period.

I drew a 1970s girl next to contrast the other time period, I gave her the same face as the previous girl because I had the idea that the girls face could remain the same showing the passing of time, but it didn't really look right.

I moved onto the next girl, a Victorian woman who I drew in pencil onto a page from an old book to give a different feel and fit more with the era, I drew parts of a Victorian clock behind her aswell. I also drew her again in pen and this time tried photocopying her onto one of the book pages. I don't really like how she turned out and doesn't really fit with the other two in style.

Moving onto the last one now, I drew a 1920's girl with an art deco clock and added a stock image texture in the background.

I added the first girl and the second together to get an idea of what it would look like as I wanted to create a grid of these girls/clocks, however they were all too different in style and I didn't think  they would work well like that.

I wasn't finished with this idea however and ill come back to it later!...