Sketchbook as Object part 2: Drawing with objects a scrapbook journey 2.5
Scrapbook Journey
The journey I decided to document is the one where I have to get the bus into the city centre and then get a train over to my Nans. It’s a journey I often make so I thought because of the many buildings, statues, the train station, and people that are usually all-around town would be perfect for telling a story.
The mediums I used were pencil, fine liners, watercolour. I first started by referencing a picture of the buildings I went past on the bus and drew, and water coloured them. I kept it sketchy and loose exploring the tones I could make with mixing water with not only watercolour but the ink from the fine liner. I didn’t spend too much time on these I just wanted to capture them in the simplest forms. I think the messiness reflects the journey of moving fast passed these things, not really having time to fully take all the detail in, I like that the scenes aren’t very proportional too. But I also built up the layers adding more colours and more ink and then finishing with a white fine liner for the one on the left because I wanted to make the building stand out.
A running theme in my sketchbook is making most pages interactive, this page has been the most fun to do to so far. I made my own ticket scanner that you can pull the tickets through, I used flowers as a part of the drawing, I used train tickets to flip up and reveal more art underneath and then more art under that and finally making a mini set of bus windows over one of the environments I drew that could be moved if you wanted to see the whole picture.
A lot of the main drawings are in my own style, but I have added a little inspired sketches from Saul Steinberg on lined paper of my mum and the empty train seats. And I have also did work inspired by Christoph Niemann. I will day though I enjoyed working over photographs I took giving that modern spin like Niemann’s work. I didn’t really have space to put them on the page so they’re here instead. I feel that my creations are very much my own and in my own style, I added a little more detail and colour I some and also tried it on random pictures I’ve took not just on this journey. I have thoroughly enjoyed working in the style of these to artists especially digitally because you can do so much, and I like the process of find something to take a picture of and thinking of what it could be made into or what it looks like. I sometimes even surprise myself with what I come up with.
Had ago with some other pictures to....
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