Summer Project: Week 14

One week to go!

I still had a pretty miscellaneous theme this week, drawing random things, and things that I am interested in too.

Health

I watched a documentary on sugar this week, and it blew my mind as to how detrimental it can be on our health in excessive amounts, and how we are consuming excessive amounts a lot of the time without even realising!

I need to look more into the food industry and public health in general, I am fascinated by it, and could see it as a potential COP topic...

These fossils are one of my favourite drawings I have done in my sketchbook. I used wax crayons, that would stereotypically only children would use, but I am really pleased with the outcome that I achieved with using different colours to create depth and tone.

On my last day of summer I had a brain wave!

An idea for my zine could be 'the illustrated Otley Run'. I loved drawing the houses I lived in so much, and see this as a progression that could appeal to a much wider audience.

Summer Summary:

Summer started pretty well, but I massively lost my motivation half way through. This was partly because I felt a bit of 'cabin fever' being stuck in Grantham with zero inspiration, and the overwhelming fear of 'is this what life is like after graduation?'.

I am disappointed because I feel like I should have used my time away from college to produce and develop me work a lot more than I managed tom but I suppose now I will just have to use my time back in Leeds to do this.

However I have produced a handful of good drawings that I can develop at a later stage, and a few ideas that I can go back to as well.

Summer Project: Week 13

Pages on a theme 2

After a weekend away I felt very refreshed and motivated thankfully!

Thinking more about the zine I will need to produce in the near future, I think the theme of 'pages on a theme' might be necessary? If I pick out some of my best and miscellaneous drawings to compile into a book it may work.

Just an idea at the moment though!

Summer Project: Week 12

I miss university!

I'm so ready to be back in Leeds now, I drew some of the buildings there and the places I have lived, I'm just looking forward to getting back into the swing of things.

The house I'll be staying in this year, and the halls I have just moved from.

I took a trip down to Bournemouth this weekend to get some fresh air ,get away from Grantham and visit my family, it was definitely worth it!

Summer Project: Week 11

Miscellaneous 2

I couldn't think of anything specific that I wanted to achieve,and my work this week didn't have a particular direction.

Summer Project: Week 10

Birthday Week!

My motivation is still at an all time low, but I managed to do a bit more work this week.

I read an article about the new labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn prosing an idea of women only train carriages in the UK.
I didn't make a finished polished editorial illustration on the article, but I jotted down a few rough ideas that I thought might be effective on the points and opinions raised by the public on the matter.

I turned TWENTY! It was the biggest anticlimax ever. This is just a quick drawing of a comparison of my third and twentieth birthdays.

My family and I did a costal path walk from Robin Hood's Bay to Whitby.

Quick drawing from my visit to the London Transport Museum, which was SO interesting (I have done a separate blog post containing my thoughts on the exhibition there)

Ears! because until now I thought that I sucked at drawing them

Summer Project Week 8/9

I've hardly done any drawings over the past week and a half. Being home has really had an affect on my motivation and I'm struggling so much to produce good work without being in a creative environment! 

Feeling like I have run out of steam is really making me anxious for when I graduate. I know things will progress and change but I feel like I am trapped in the concept of becoming an illustrator, moving away from Leeds and being subjected to drawing in my tiny box bedroom in my dull, uninspiring hometown. It's scary!!

I chose themes from Phil McAndrews list that I thought I could manage with feeling pretty rubbish (hopefully it is obvious what they are!)

Summer Project: Week 7

SOS ILLUSTRATORS BLOCK

Back home in Grantham, there isn't much to be inspired by or interested in, so I was struggling a lot for ideas and motivation despite having visited different places.

I tapped into google 'what can I draw?' and I found this really handy website that illustrator Phil McAndrew has provided with a list of 400 things you can draw. So I started to work my way through it.

http://philintheblanks.com/thelist.html

'Emotional fish'

'Slugs'

'Different breeds of dogs'

'Sushi'

My favourite topic by far was 'draw every house you've ever lived in'

This for me was pretty sentimental, as I have moved around a lot and lived in seven houses (sadly all in Grantham), I know it sounds cringey but each house is like a metaphor for different milestones in my life, so this was a bit of a personal project for me to engage in.

I posted this on my instagram and received some really positive comments. It has also sparked an interest in drawing buildings; how can they tell a story, how can buildings, or sequences of buildings relate to a theme or portray a message?

Something to think about!