deer/elephant/addax/rhino

some sketches/doodles from the natural history museum in prep for the collections project.. brb..

image project

so i visited the science museum and the imperial war museum, we are designing souvenirs..

i basically just filled up the page with little things that caught my eye, which turned out to be things like nuts and bolts and anything that looked like it could be embellishment or adornment like badges or text, lights, anything small and colourful..
i liked the fact that the attachments or fixings (dunno the word) for the pipes and things were these lovely pastel shades ... im sure there's a logical reasoning behind all of this like "this one makes sure u can breathe" or something but i loved that they looked like badges or brooches or something.. almost like jewellery or badges of honor etc..

on to the imperial war museum, (along with the hoards of camera toting war paraphernalia fanatics) i also looked at the idea of adornment or decoration, focusing on little details from handpainted designs to more practical things like screws and name plates and chains etc..

again i filled pages..

ropes, badges, nuts, numbers, words, patterns...

names, borders, chains, wheels..

so i looked at the idea of decoration and tranferring these ideas on to paper products like letter papers...

using snippets from my drawings to add a special touch to ur letter ... nice idea?

so yeh, with the research from the science museum i did a similar thing...

then experimented with the idea of jewellery designed along the space theme... be a glamorous geek...

i made lots of little prototypes (below for some reason) and ended with this:

admittedly this isnt a great picture (the item is actually quite pretty) i'll insert a better one later...

urban orienteering part 1. (13.10.10)

Shoreditch is too cool for me. When ever I find myself there I'm immediately bombarded with all things hip and trendy, in fact I feel like I'm being hit over the head with a brown leather brogue.

I got lost, and so to not look so lost I drew things; anything, and that's what you're seeing now.

I wasn't so much trying to draw every little detail as that's beyond me, but wanted to capture the essence, a distinctive shape, an interesting sky line or the lampposts; sharp and angular and ornate, winding their way off into the distance like quiet pillars that come alive as it darkens but remain obsolete during the day as hoards of quiff sporting trend-setters weave their way down the artfully grotty street, each piece of gum and crumpled paper looking as if it were placed carefully in it's little pocket.

I love the immediacy of drawing and the outcome can vary depending on several different factors, the tools you're using; the texture of the paper; your own temperament; the light etc, so you're never too certain as to how it might turn out. Those fluid lines that then turn into angry, jagged scratches can be happy mistakes.

I also collected various pieces of "evidence" during my disorientated ramblings like lost papers, tape, cardboard, leaves and some burst balloons that just looked so sombre in a colourful, punctured way; impaled to their white message board.

So now I'm working on how to pull all these pieces together.

I'll keep you posted.