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. 

- Comparison of sketchbooks -

I have always thought that people work in completely different ways within the design world, this weeks Sketch Innovation class proved me right.
We were all asked to bring in a sketchbook that we could talk about, the session consisted of being split into groups of four or five of us.

It was a really interesting experience as all of my group were from different pathways, two of them were from Graphic Communication and one was from Spacial and Interior Design.
It was intriguing to see how they work and their sketchbooks of choice.

The work above was one of the Graphic Communication students work which I really loved, this particular work was from her A-Levels. I asked her about her sketchbooks now and she said that she missed this kind of work where it was paper based so she can see it develop in front of her. At the moment her course doesnt allow the freedom that comes with a sketchbook, its all very digital based without a process, its all to the point and commercial. 

Another Graphic Communication Designers work. He felt the same as the other girl, he misses his work being in sketchbooks. He said he didnt have the time to sit and draw in a book. 

I found it really interesting that he brought a tiny sketchbook that was busy and vibrant  and then his Ipad of which had work on it but in a more clean cut way, as I would expect from a Graphic Designer. 

This sketchbook was the work from the spacial and interior design student in which she used her sketchbook to write measurements, material reactions and strengths and ideas in. I found her work extremely interesting to look at as it completely contrasts with every other sketchbook I have looked at. It was all very ordered and seemed serious, like it was for a purpose.  

-Professor Stephen Farthing- Guest Lecture-

This particular opening lecture set the scene for Sketch Innovation as a subject. Professor Farthing (professor of drawing art UAL) broadened my mind and inspired me to think about my sketchbooks and how I use mine to aid me in my Textile Designs.

He planted a thought in my head that I should use a sketchbook as a tool to my everyday life, to carry a book round in my handbag with me everywhere I go. To use it as a almost journal and timeline of my ideas,  thoughts, drawings and designs.

Professor Farthing introduced us to the thought that a drawing or a sketch doesn't have to be a pencil touching some paper to create a image it could be anything. A sundial, a photograph or a light show could be a drawing.
He planted the idea that children are the best drawers, in which they love the actual physical movement of the pencil on the page, this changes when we grow up when we care to much about how the image looks, if it looks similar to the subject of which we are drawing.
This particular lecture was a inspiring and exciting introduction to Sketch Innovation.

 Stephen Farthing, Moko Map, 2007, water colour on paper.