Lately I've been carrying around a small sketchbook and a few pens to capture my daily life, I've decided that when i'm drawing, i'm capturing not just the location but the mood. I hope to improve my line drawings aswell, so it looks more fluid and less architecture book.
sketchbook
The State of Nature- Behind the Scenes
For my final piece, what began as an exploration of gardens and nature eventually became a 'Day of the Triffids'!?
At the beginning I was inspired by the Barbican Centre Conservatory, it was the place to spend my Sundays in a brutalist concrete box that was filled with tropical plants and warmth that in an odd way felt like home.
But I didn't stop there, I continued to explored gardens in and outside of London, my travels even took me as far as Cornwall to the Eden Project as I wrote about previously.
Towards the end of the project after long travels, I returned to my home is South London and fell back in love with the buildings and wanted to find some way to bring this in my current work with nature. So began the apocalypse!
Then it eventually became this!
Last Summer
in Sketchbook
In the summer of 2015, I decided to keep a sketchbook to explore who I was an illustrator, and I owe that sketchbook a lot. It essentially formed the entire base for my final year during my undergrad studies, including my final pieces. It was a return to my former love of architecture and embraced it with nature and my hobby of people watching.
SouthWalk - Behind the Book
A short look into the inspirations, sketches and previews of final pages!
A simple look at the title will tell you the inspiration for this book, Southwark! Specifically Camberwell where my University is located. The architecture, the high street pubs and the little alleys wedged in-between, I love this details that are so common to the area but are basically overlooked.
To create my images, I drew with pen straight onto brown recycled paper and used gray markers to bleed tone into the pages with a white ink pen for highlights.
Finally here a few of my favorite pages from the book
