Depths of the Ocean

I love drawing hair and decided to try and tackle it in a different way, starting with facial hair. Since I am usually quite straightforward, I thought I would experiment with lots of mark making of hair and some of these included charcoal rubbings. I started looking at the rubbings I had made and some looked very skeleton-like. Going in this direction I started to experiment with charcoal rubbings with things purposefully to look skeleton like. I played around with the photocopier, inverting, etc, they looked like x-rays - in- keeping with the skeleton aesthetic. At some point in my experimenting they started looking like sea creatures so I decided to make it into that, and my final series is showing the process of how I got from hair to sea creatures using acetone rubbings of my experiments.