experimenting with different images of Marie Curie

as i have drawn my postcards products in bold black brush pen but have used pencil to draw my poster drawing of marie curie, i was worried that this would not make the 2 link very well. so i have experimented with drawing marie curie using a brush pen aswell.

though i like the boldness you get when using brush pen and how it creates different width lines to represent shadow etc, it was hard to achieve as much detail to the face as what i would get with a pencil. 

remembering back to when we first got given this brief, i remember matt and fred saying the facts that we find out about our person of note should be ones that we did not no about the person, as this will make our work more interesting. as more postcards are primary about radiation (radium products) which is something that is commonly linked with marie curie, i wanted to add something to my work that people perhaps would not know about her or not necessarily think of when they think of her. from the research i found out about marie was that she was a family woman and had always been close with her family and was a mother herself of  2 girls. i have decided to draw a picture of her and her children to add this aspect or her life/personality to my work. 

to make Marie curie the main focus in the illustration i thought about drawing the 2 daughters in a different and simpler technique so Marie would be the most detailed and therefore the main focal point.  i really like David Hockneys line drawing of people (above) and think this would be a good technique to draw the girls in. 

evaluating this technique, i don't think the combination of pencil drawing (Marie's face)and the line drawings work. i think it looks to miss match, i feel it detail and simplicity would work, but it would need to done using the same tool i.e. both pencil or both pen. 

 i played around with adding different thicknesses of lines to the daughters, though i still feel this technique is not right for my project, i do like the mixture of thin and thick pen line and will consider using and developing on this technique in other projects.