Quick links, Sketchbook tour and reflection
Completed during COVID-19
Quick Links
Exercise 2.0: Rapid sketches – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/04/18/exercise-2-0-rapid-sketches/
Exercise 2.1: Limited line drawings – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/04/24/exercise-2-1-limited-line-drawings/
Exercise 2.2: Investigating a process – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/03/exercise-2-2-investigating-a-process/
Exercise 2.3: Blind contour drawing –https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/03/exercise-2-3-blind-contour-drawing/
Exercise 2.4: Drawing with tea bags –https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/05/exercise-2-4-drawing-with-tea-bags/
Exercise 2.5: Drawing with objects: A journey scrapbook – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/09/exercise-2-5-drawing-with-objects-a-journey-scrapbook/
Exercise 2.6: Pareidolia – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/13/exercise-2-6-pareidolia/
Research task 2.0: Sophie Peanut – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/04/21/research-task-2-0-sophie-peanut/
Research task 2.2: Lucy Austin – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/04/29/research-task-2-2-lucy-austin/
Research task 2.5: Christoph Niemann and Saul Steinberg – https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/08/research-task-2-5-christoph-niemann-and-saul-steinberg/
Assignment two – Happy Accidents https://emclemmiesketchbooksoca.art.blog/2020/05/14/assignment-two-happy-accidents/
Reflection
I had started sketchbook part two being very opened minded, ready and excited to explore. While I knew was going to have to explore within my sketchbook, I had found this part to also be an intense discovery that led me towards an emotional destination as well…
This emotional journey has been very powerful and I just hope this shows in my pages, as it really has been my “everyday” for the pass month.
I honestly want to take so much forward from this part, I don’t think there was a single part I didn’t “like” or didn’t have a bit of enlightening moment, I can see me in cafes using food/drinks to add that stain so can add a more organic feel of the place in that moment! I actually do not feel like I’ve “completed” this section as so much more I can do as really inspired.
There wasn’t just one single artist I didn’t want to take something from to learn, even if wasn’t my “style” sometimes they had a such great emotional insight and connection to their work I just had to learn from who they are as a artist/person. If was to pick artist who style is likely to influence my work the most in the future, it would be Sophie Peanut as she has the most illustrated style.
What did I find hard was not knowing which direction to go and sometimes unintentionally having a more polish finished then what I was wanting, when wanted to be loose and more in the moment.
That’s not to say I didn’t have the moments at all and I found that I surprised myself with the results (such as rapid draw & limited lines together).
I want to take everything forward with me (not just for the next section) but as an artist and illustrator.
Part Three People and Place.
This next part really worries me, not because of the exercises but the times we live in (Covid-19) I’m starting my third unit for an overlap to give myself more freedom to do this next part.
Realistically I know I won’t be able to carry out this part with the freedom I originally wanted, the world will not be the same for a while, at first I was really upset by this as it is an area of growth to get me drawing freely in public. But over time I’ve came to realises even if I do not have the chance now… Nothing to stop me growing beyond the slope of this unit, I am not limited by today, yesterday for tomorrow will come!
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