Evaluation.

Throughout my time working on sketch innovation I have started to look at drawings and peoples work differently.

Especially when it comes to looking at people’s sketchbooks, sketch innovation opened my eyes to the fact that people work really differently within different specialist areas. For example Interior and Spatial design students use their sketchbooks in a completely different way to Graphic Design students in the way that I&S design students use their sketchbooks like a guide for workshops compared to Graphic Design student who uses their i-pad like a sketchbook so they can constantly work on their designs and show their working processes in a professional and finished way. 

I really enjoyed in creating a actual physical sketchbook that was made out of recycled paper and I sewed it together, the pages were blank and it was pocket sized as I have many large sketchbooks but non small enough to fit in my pocket when I’m viewing exhibitions or traveling somewhere and I have a brain wave. 

I found Stephan Farthing’s lecture highly inspiring and unusual. I liked the way he was completely open to what a drawing or sketch was and how it was formed.

It was interesting to hear about somebody's new and exciting view on their specialism. Ever since that first lecture I found myself looking at things in the street, objects, lights, shadows and all round day to day life in a different way. I began to look at things like they were sketches and drawings like traces of light were a purposeful line. 

It’s interesting that drawing and sketching is a major part of history in which it marks the start of mankind that illustrates human interaction with each other and animals, it also shows us that they like us drew things that were humorous and what they found funny, for example with the drawing of the pharaoh dressed as a mouse and cats serving it. 

I like how that shows that throughout time creative people have left their mark of which I hadn't thought about till I chose Sketch Innovation. 

I also came to the realization how important sketchbooks are in the life of a art student and a young designer. They are filled with thoughts that run through our minds everyday whether its just a star on the corner of a page or a complete illustration of our next idea, its all relative like a journal of life, that moment we pick up a pen or pencil and move it upon a page it creates something. That something could be a trigger that sparks off a new project. Sketch innovation made me realize how much I need a sketchbook and drawings in my life to do the degree I’m doing, it also made me aware of how much I enjoy sketchbooks and how they fusion with day to day life. 

Creating a Drawing Machine exercise- 

My drawing invention is created quite simply from paint and marbles. I had four drops of paint in the corners of my sketchbook. The paint was acrylic.

I bought 150 marbles to see what I could make with the paint and the marbles combined.

I found it interesting with the more marbles you introduce to the page obviously the more markings are created, I liked how it wasn't all down to me, it was the paper, the surface, the paint and marbles together my hand which was the final element. 

All of these mediums created a sketch like no other, a drawing with movement diverse colour and expression.
I liked how the end sketch was circles over each other with the four starting points at each corner. How there is a density where the marbles were instantly moved too and round the edges of the sketch is light and fragile.
However the actual sketch isn't the full drawing in my opinion as I used my hand in the process therefore my hand also became part of the drawing itself.
I like the small round imprints on my hand alongside the colour.

I think my drawing machine was a successful medium for a mark making exercise like this one. It was a fun idea next time I think I might introduce some more elements maybe chalk, graphite so it becomes layered and has a different texture.

Sketch Presentation-
 Sketches by others that I am inspired by:

Andrea Zuill- Demon Valentine. 

Zuill only uses watercolour which is my favorite medium and she uses it with great skill and sestivity. Her work seems really light and honest. Her work has character, every drawing has feeling to it and expresses a emotion of which I think really attracts me to an illustration. 

Quentin Blake- from the series mother and babies underwater. 

-Alike Andrea Zuill, Quentin Blake's are sensitive and light, well though out. amazing use of watercolour and fine liner. 

His drawings seem really quick, expressive and momentary. Also alike Andrea Zuill's work Blake's drawing have feeling and emotion. Blakes work is very different to the child illustrations he did for Raul Dahl however have the sam naivety to them.

Natasha Kerr- Who is the naked lady?

Kerr's work seems like every inch seems really thought out. Her work is always complicated and created from mixed media. I find this image interesting in the way that the image contrasts initself alot with the sad naked black and white woman sitting in despair alongside bright and royal wallpaper. Her work is always "textiley", with the buttons and print and such.

Five Sketches of my own work:

I miss working in this way-

I find this image illustrative and informative.  I like how this particular sketch seems like controlled passion.

I like how my work is getting information across through the medium of fashion illustration in a simple and obvious way.

This sketch illustrates my enjoyment of drawing from my last project,  I tried something new and exciting way of creating a drawing  with masking tape and acrylic paint.

This drawing is my spare time drawing from easter break. I think I get my most effective drawing when I don't think about it to much and its more expressive. 

Double pages from my current sketchbook. This particular page is a documentation of what I was working on at the time, filled with notes and colour swatches it helps me keep in track with what I was doing within my work. 

Another page from my notebook of which was another one of my drawings where I did in my spare time. I came back to it over a period of time where I worked into it more.  

Five sketchbook pages by other people-

Caitlian Keegan-illustrator.  I find her work very inspirational, can see the cogs turning in her imagination to create the pages. Keegan's work is all very feminine and full of details.

I like the way she marries pattern with a page full of little details and mark making then opposite a page with linear drawings of which are very sensitive and simple.

 I love how her though process is displayed all over the pages. Simple but full of detail and how this is zoomed in focused on the details that she originally wanted to draw but then came back from the image and started to draw it again. 

John Lennon 1979- sketch from his sketchbook where he drew a picture of him and his son greeting a fan in central park. 

This particular sketch is filled with humour and is all very tongue in cheek

The drawing seems like it is filled with colour and happiness.

Anne M Bray

Her drawings of mcqueen dresses at the met at new york city. 

You can see the power the dresses gave to the viewer, scriblley like she didnt have enough time to draw them properly she was too interested in the structures.

I like how there writing alongside, like a promt when she views her sketchbook back. 

Alena Lavdovskaya

There movement within the drawing, focusing on the clothing and shape. 

I like the mistakes within the sketch with the finger marks and rubbing out, obviously very precise and technical with fashion illustration. 

Roger Demuth- illustrator. 
I like there is a mix of media, pencil work with red and blue ink. I find the simple and detailed with quite linear drawing. There a mixture of subjects within his work which I find interesting because each subject is related but not related at the same time.

Five events that inspire me:

Light exhibition in the tunnels at southbank. 

The exhibition was underground felt unusual being there with nothing around apart from really bright artworks.

It contained fragile straw like structures that were glow in the dark. 

You could walk inbetween the structures, uneasy feeling looking at the bright colours standing out in the darkness. 

Ron Mueck, belsay hall exhibition. His work is very intricate and bizzare to look at so realistic sculptures of which are really raw in a setting that is all about heritage and history and grand events. 

Notting Hill festival 

Different communities and cultures coming together for celbration think its the only proper carnival in london that everyone knows about and celebrates.

The carnival is busy full of colour and a friendly and warm atmosphere. 

Abbey Road Studios. 

The studios have diversity of peoples writing, drawing and general grafftti. Strong colours with a mixture of medium written on the walls. 

I really like how its a restricted space but so much on them. 

Sketch Innovation is changing how I look and view my sketchbooks, other peoples sketchbooks and different drawing techniques. 

I originally chose sketch innovation to improve and to provoke my Textile design, I find that my work in textiles is very drawing based therefore I think that I could take alot from sketch innovation as a practice. 

I expected the course to be alot more sketch based however I am enjoying the theory aspect and the learning that comes with it, I find myself thinking about peoples sketchbooks alot more than I did beforehand. 

I find it refreshing to learn about something ive never been taught or thought of before. I like the fact that it surprises me and opens me up fine arty side of my personality.

Sketch innovation is in complete contrast with my textile design course as my degree is very technical which I like but its nice to have something different to focus on even when I have deadlines which are important its a breath of fresh air sometimes to do something different to what my degree is. 

-Book Making

I had a little try and creating and making my own book, of which I used a advertising post card, a needle and thread and sketchbook paper. 

This session we were asked to do some quick sketches or various different subjects.
I enjoyed this as I figured out how and what my drawing technique is, what I concentrate on and how I create a sketch.

 Five minute sketch- My route to uni.

  Two minute sketch- The person next to me.

Five minute sketch- A detail in the room. 

 Five minute sketch- My first home.

 Five minute sketch- The last party I went to. 

A sketchbook page that I did while listening to music. 

After this session I have come to the decision that I focus alot on detail when I am sketching, I also am very quick to draw figures very loose.
Having a time scale for drawing is a fun exercise  however I began to be frustrated when I couldn't get my sketches right in the amount of time I had.