Kelly Bastow, Andreas Lie, Mikotk

What stood out to me about Kelly Bastows work here was her use of shape and silhouette.
Shape is used as a way of exaggerating and developing figure within these characters.
There are some really good, strong silhouettes within this pieces especially when you contrast the thinner and larger models and have them flow in and out of each other within the frame. I feel like this piece would work in showing the fluidity and flexibility of these femme bodies if Kelly was strictes on keeping the forms within the frame.

Andreas's use of brush to create a fluid and energetic portrait which feels extremely controlled and elegant as away of using media to describe a character the silhouette show control and air of instant ness to it. Using media as away of describing a character is a really smart techniques. Andreas Lie did a series of side portraits using varying media however I believe this one to be the most successful because it's the only one of his pieces I feel which emotes a deeper meaning than media experimentation.   

With Mikoto's work I favour this purely for the use of colour to express mood and character. The use of red contrasting entirely with the cooler colour plate sue for the rest of the image placed on the face depicts an air of sinisterness or evil within this character. The almost plact facial expression doesn't allow itself to be read easily by the viewer however by adding the red the view begins to connect the colour symbolism with something bad. Which is an interesting way of using colour to characterise your characters.