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Tutorial 2: Lines

Today we were tasked to find a photo and replicate it with lines to convey information. This is the photo I eventually selected in the end after much contemplation. Besides capturing the first ever untethered space walk in the history of mankind, it is perhaps one of NASA’s and space travel’s most iconic photos, being reproduced on calendars, books, magazines and merchandise even till this day.

Photograph of Bruce McCandless II untethered in space, captured by Robert Gibson
First, I traced the silhouette of the astronaut using a market ignoring contours.


Next, I traced the details and the contours of the astronaut, and overlaid it over the first outline. Now, we can see the image of the astronaut in greater clarity.


Even though we can tell very clearly that it is an astronaut, the face of the astronaut is obscured. And that’s the beauty of this image, that it could be anyone and not just NASA officer Bruce McCandless in the spacesuit. It is a representation of mankind and technological triumph. At the same time, I think that without the context of the original photo, the lined drawing of the astronaut looks somewhat sombre and lonely. This could also be partly attributed to the lack of colour, as the sun was shining really brightly on the spacesuit’s sun visor in the original which could not be captured in a drawing with just lines.

Next I tried to shift the 2 separate outlines so that they were not congruent with each other. This created an interesting 3D-like visual effect.


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