Face to face
Two faces in profile, face to face, drawn with a single blue Bic ballpoint: the stroke tangles and thickens in the shadows and opens up until it almost vanishes in the highlights.
- Pen
- Boli Bic azul
- Paper
- Canson Bristol 90 g
- Ink
- blue ballpoint (Bic)
- Dimensions
- A4 · 210 × 297 mm
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About this work
The starting point is a photograph of two people looking at each other up close. The program reads the light in the image and guides the pen with a continuous scribble that returns again and again to the dark areas, the hair, the eyebrows, the gap between the two profiles, and barely touches the paper where the photo is lit. There are no outlines: the faces emerge from the build-up of line.
The drawing is made with an ordinary blue Bic ballpoint mounted on the plotter, on smooth white 90 g Canson Bristol paper that lets the ball roll without skipping.
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