Skull Study

My still life study of a skull with ink pen and a selection of brush pens for shading across two A5 sketchbook pages.

I wanted to delve into immortality as a concept rather than the conventional understanding of being an omnipresent living being. The only physical remnant we leave behind after death is our skeleton. Anything else is merely the mark we make on the world. The effect for these two pieces was achieved by imposing my earlier skull sketch onto the faces of the subjects through photoshop, allowing the original sketch to interact with the photo.

 Many people go about immortalising themselves through music; leaving a profound impact in the minds of many. Through the double exposure of my sketch on the face of Jimi Hendrix I have intended to show the collision of these two concepts; leaving behind the physical skeleton, whilst immortalising themselves.