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.