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I love photography and consider it one of my main hobbies, if the dream wasn’t to be an illustrator I would have pursued a career in photography. So I take a lot (and I mean) A LOT of pictures, I also watch and read a lot relating to photography, about a year and half agoContinue reading “Exercise 3.1 Understanding viewpoints”

The main thing I wish to take away from the study of Vernica lawlors work is her limited uses of colour, how it actually makes the whole page feel filled with colour, when the reality is that a simple line or block of colour gives the impression of this! I am a little all orContinue reading “Research task 3:1 A reportage study case”

More than art in the clouds… Growing up I really had the best imagination, I saw thing in everything and anything, I would make my own little characters from sticks, pipe cleaner, cities in cracks in the walls, I would spend hours seeing things in the clouds, sand, rivers. Sadly when I grew up IContinue reading “Exercise 2.5: Drawing with objects: A journey scrapbook”

Bringing the world and my imagination closer together! Christoph Niemann I like the idea of grabbing a different random object and drawing with it everyday, even if not in the same manner that Niemann uses them, just an item everyday, maybe turning into something else maybe just using as studies. This indeed would be somethingContinue reading “Research task 2.5: Christoph Niemann and Saul Steinberg”

On the 25th April an email had landed in my inbox from Phil Davies titled “how to paint with coffee granules & coffee swabs“. It was a posted on the blog page called artTUTOR and this post was made by Bob Davies (I believe Phil’s father) – This whole thing is part of the artContinue reading “Exercise 2.4: Drawing with tea bags”

I LOVE drawing blind… honestly I do, I have so much fun doing this and I love the randomness of these type of exercises. I started doing this as a warm up since I watch a course titled “Learning how to draw: A mindset, method and exercises”. by Yuko Shimizu, I owe a lot toContinue reading “Exercise 2.3: Blind contour drawing”

The fun side to illustration! I like nothing more to get new art supplies, as I love testing them and so such excitement comes with the fact I have so much to learn. I also am one of them artist / illustrators that use whatever is to hand as I can get in the moment,Continue reading “Exercise 2.2: Investigating a process”

On first glace I wouldn’t have thought lucy Austin as a watercolour artist, her work seems very acrylic to me. I find it fascinating when someone breaks the mold, someone who is different within the medium itself. I love trying things differently, even so this is an eye opener as if you was to showContinue reading “Research task 2.2: Lucy Austin”

When a line isn’t there! Funny enough, I had touched upon Gestalt Theory in key steps one, as the psychological aspect behind art, illustration and the creative world deeply interests me. I find it very fascinating and I like to have hidden meaning in my work. There are five main principles of the Gestalt TheoryContinue reading “Exercise 2.1: Limited line drawings”

Sophie Peanut is an illustrator/Artist and urban sketcher from Halifax, she has this brilliant website for 5 minute sketches. I found myself really drawn to Sophie Peanut illustrated recipes. But the most important thing I think I can take away from Sophie Peanut work, is her urban sketching and 5 minutes sketches. I do notContinue reading “Research task 2.0: Sophie Peanut”