With my degree focusing on screen printing I always had drawing at the roots of my practice. My work was very stylised and created outline drawings, contour line drawings, but never realistic, like for like pieces. I’m going back to basics and working on my drawing skills again. It’s nice to have a focus to work with again, going from a degree with briefs to work from, to having complete free reign over what you work on can be quite daunting.
I’ve chosen to focus on observational drawings, looking at urban sketching and botanical drawing. Botanical drawing is the area that I feel most comfortable working on, something I have done before and would like to go back and improve my skills in this area as well as try out different techniques. Whereas urban sketching is something new for me to challenge myself with. Having been trawling through the Urban Sketchers blog and book I’ve been inspired by the vast array of different styles of capturing the world around us.
Pictures to follow soon…
