These are the three final pieces created for the Kley sketchbook project. After looking in detail at skulls, bones and butterfly wings as the smaller and differently scaled objects, I combined them with the figures of the women (referencing Guido Argentini's photography collection).
The idea of scale is played with in the combination of the female character and the butterfly wings, questioning whether the figure is small with 'normal' sized butterfly wings, or the female is 'normal' sized with oversized wings.
I've drawn the female figures within the inside of the skulls landscape, attempting to fit the poses into the different shaped crevices and holes within the formations of the bone. Some minor changes were made to skull formations in order to fit the females into the shapes, as amending the poses would be more difficult in this instance due to a lack of reference to work from.
I used the style of cross hatching I'd experimented with previously for both the figures and the skulls, creating strong definition but also looking at the details of imperfections in the bone.
My favourite of the three pieces is the centre image with the female lying down. I think this drawing captures the pose particularly well as well as the emotions portrayed, showing a sense of wanting to hide herself and also sadness. Because of the less detail background of the skull I also think the figure and the pose is the main focus, whereas in the other images I think the figures get slightly lost within the skulls.
