John Lennon

John Lennon was an artist across varying mediums. Notorious for his musical career as a "Beatle" and solo artist, John also had a wide variety of drawings. While each of his drawings has unique qualities, his style can be described as playful, eluding to simplicity, while capturing  open space to form structure to his image. The following works provide examples of this style:

                                                          9-Portraits

This series of drawings focus on 9 individual self portraits of John. Although each image lacks a jaw bone line, the face is still captured. These drawings, while simple, indicate John's ability to communicate through drawing.

Milk and Honey

This piece characterizes John's ability to capture depth with few details. Again he is successful in communicating within his drawings.

 

John and Yoko

In this drawing, John uses more lines, a fast sketch style. Again with little detail in his and Yoko's face, he is able to capture an image.

John Lennon had a unique style of drawing. As shown, many of his drawings us few lines and little detail, in order to capture a comprehensible picture. I found connections with his style in some of Pablo Picasso's drawings. Picasso also used few lines in order to capture an image.

Camel

                                             

While similarities can be drawn from both artists, each uses a unique and recognizable style of their own.