Summer Brief

Summer Brief

These are some embroidery samples I created from my drawing. I decided to play on the idea of a journey, so I decided to create a storyboard of images I had drawn and photographed over the summer. I really like the rough, messy drawings and boxes that I have created. I feel like the images should have some colour but i'm not sure what to use. 

Summer Brief

Summer Brief

Whilst drawing and collecting visual research, I decided to move my drawings into a new medium and try something different, rather than just doing research using a pen and paper. I created these embroidery samples from my drawings I'd collected whilst in London.

I really like the continual line you get from using a sewing machine, it's something that I tried to translate from my drawings into these samples and I think it has worked well. The mis-shapen and wonky lines that you get from machine stitch is something I really like, it makes my drawings seem less precious as once you make a mistake there is no going back. 

I added a wash of colour over the top using a pro-marker. I really like the happy mistake that happened as all the ink bled into each other, mixing the colours and joining the lines to the colour. 

Summer Brief

Summer Brief

 Over the summer, I spent a lot of time in London, looking at all the exhibitions and drawing. The brief was to create a visual diary, which I decided to mainly focus on the outside world and all the architecture available. I used my visual diary to create a journey of all the places I had travelled in London. 

With my drawings I tried to experiment as much as possible. For example, (I love drawing with pens) I used as many different types of pens in order to create texture. I really enjoyed using pro-markers as well and adding colour to my drawings, it's something i'd never really done before and it brought me right out of my comfort zone. I also really enjoyed drawing outside, something i've always been paranoid about before.