Design diary

  Hayao Miyazaki, who created Studio Ghibli, has always inspired me. His artwork is really beautiful and always reminds me of my childhood. While watching the movies, I like to make little minute-long sketches of areas which can be really interesting to see the parts of the scenery that stand out to me. This sketch took a couple of minutes and is from Kikis delivery service, one of my favourite Studio Ghibli films. 

I have been looking into Kandinsky's work recently; his work is quite inspiring to me regarding patterns and how free-flowing it feels. I tried to make my own inspired quick pieces using different mediums (oil pastels and markers) to see how the patterns varied dependent on colours and textures. I prefer the oil as it feels much more raw and organic than the marker, which feels quite placed. I feel like taking these patterns and using them for design could be a really interesting experiment that I may try.  

  Here are some sketches I made using sharpie of different areas around Gloucester. I feel like sometimes, when drawing, one of the things I find myself doing is redoing lines hundreds of times and rubbing them out just to do them again! So using sharpie was actually a nice change. It may be a medium that in future I use especially when on-site/ when out and about!

 I attempted the photoshop exercise to explore the different techniques which photoshop offers.  I have used the techniques in the pdf attachment however, in general, I like the techniques of using photos as I feel like it gives a more real effect; this is what I used on my projects last year. I have in the past had the lines on separate layers so the colours can feel more integrated but obviously, this isn't always possible.

I have been experimenting with the idea of lines and the number of lines I used. With the pencil, I was using a lot of small lines and then when going over it in ben it's more of one line rather than many, which looks a lot better.