Big drawing

We had a drawing task to create a 1 meter by 1 meter drawing, inspired by our project and only using a black and white media. I found this really challenging as I have never worked on such a great scale before and did not know how to start. A small white piece of paper is daunting but the fact that it was a huge piece made it even more terrifying. I felt I should link it to the letters from Dickens to Gaskell as they are my main resource. I decided to use one of the letters that I had edited on Photoshop by combing one of  the letters and one of the envelopes. I choose the ones that I really felt would compliment one another and enhanced the colours and zoomed in on a particularly interesting area as shown below. 

Here is the image that I decided to base my big scale drawing on. However I need to use a black and white media. I decided to use ink as that is what all letters where written in 19th century. To add a little different to the drawing I wanted the writing to really standout and be accentuate. So I used a glue gun over my first sketch to make the words more of a relief piece and go over the top of the glue with black ink. This was very successful, as shown below. 

I then added white and black chalk in the areas that had more shading and the different marks to really recreate the image. However our next drawing task we had to use different words to deconstruct our drawing so some people drew over the top added elements to theirs etc. I used the word 'multiply' and decided to use a scalp to cut around each letter to accentuate it. As if the words are popping up at you and also look like a multiple of themselves. Then I decided to use newspaper behind these areas that had been cut out to emphasis them and words in general because it is a key factor in my project.  

I felt my drawing was really successful and was very proud of the final product and it really compliments my project.