Research task 3.5: visual research

I am a great admirer of Pam Smy from her sketchbooks, I first came across her work while reading I think it was “Illustrating Children’s Books: Creating Pictures for Publication” and had made a note to make her an illustrator of interest, for my own studies.

Pam Smy is an illustrator, author and illustration tutor and mentor who lives in Cambridge.

The main thing I started to think from my research into Pam Smy and reading http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jill/2014/00000001/00000001/ art00009?crawler=true Is to draw everything, put yourself in places of research in order to grew and to build your own imagination. So I’m able to place together my own illustrations better.

As I said before, I take a lot of photos, for both photography and reference purposes yet. Now I truly had the desire to start sketching everything as well. This also could be the conclusion I’ve been naturally coming to throughout this unit.
Also the desire to take photos has been replaced with the desire to get my sketchbook out and draw!

(above) explored a couple of Pam Smy sketches, then looking though my photos I sketched things I’ve never drawn before, as I was inspired.

(below) more pages inspired by Pam Smy work.
Used as a chance to explore with ink and tones.

Credits, references and research
http://Illustrator, author and illustration tutor and mentor.
https://aru.ac.uk/people/pam-smy