Dance festival inspired drawings

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This is a representation of my current state of being. Dancing on my own in my basement with a laptop is as close as I'll get to partner dancing until we come out the other side of this isolating period. It was particularly nice to hear a dance teacher talk about isolation in terms of interesting body movements this morning when that word has been plastered all over our lives with negative impacts for the past year.
I danced with a pencil along the page to a funky tune blasted by one of the DJs.
The grey lines began to represent my current mish mash of a state of mind. 
The colours and dancing is how I'm coping with it.

I copied the painting that Rhiana painted on to my body to understand better how she differentiates the tones on the skin and I think it really accentuates the movement and curves of my body. The colours bring me lots of joy and this dancing drawing idea feels like the start of something great.


Dancing through the grey mess that is my psyche, A4, Pro-Marker and pencil

I wanted to push the idea that the grey lines represented my state of mind and that I felt it looked like it was starting to surround me so I did another drawing to a tune on some tracing paper to lay on top of the drawing to see if it engulfed me and intensified the feeling of being caught up in a mess of greyness. It somewhat worked because I do feel it engulfed me but the saturation of the colours on my body was dulled because of the opacity of the tracing paper. Maybe I could use acetate to maintain the vibrant colours but also capture the lines that I feel lost in. 
I couldn't decide which way I wanted to lay the tracing paper onto the piece because the lines engulfed me in different ways. With some editing the colours popped out of the page further but I don't know if I'll keep pushing this idea too much further.


Unedited

Dancing in my grey thoughts 1, A4, Edited


Unedited
Dancing in my grey thoughts 2, A4, Edited 

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