"TAKE" - Conceptual Basis
Drawing artworks digitally is relatively new for Alan Tulloch. Digital drawings for exhibition proposals have been refined over a number of years. This has lead to the discovery of the flexibility and shortcomings of Drawing in Word. The work carried out for "TAKE" is the first time Tulloch's drawing in Word was conceived as art.
The drawings in "TAKE" differ from conventional drawing by being digital and by favouring an internal architecture of lines that sometimes resembles clutches of straw.
The idea of constructing figures as straw developed out of charcoal drawings of the figure, inspired particularly by one model's poses that made it seem as though the model could be blown away by a breeze. Alongside the development of the 'internal line technique', Alan Tulloch aligned his explorations of contemporary masculinity with the idea of creating a body of work where the figures tapped into various literary references to 'strawmen'.
He has no single internal-line rule for drawing the figure. The artist is aware of 4-5 different procedures in using his internal (and sometimes external) lines but he is keen not to be too formulaic in the use of these lines - allowing scope for intuition. The transition of the 'strawman internal line technique' from charcoal to digital has presented a host of new flexibilities that would never have been realised with traditional drawing approaches. |