Sequence and Narrative part 4: Research - Visual Diaries 4.0
Myfanwy Tristram is the first artist I researched for part 4, she is a comic book style illustrator who documents her journeys and experiences through a visual diary. I got to explore her work before research others who also do this.
Feminist Comics residence in Helsinki
I look through a few of our sketch Diaries in which she tells the journey through comics; bringing to life her experience. They're probably a good thing to look back on when you want to remember a place you visited or what you did there. There is a lot of writing which is good for telling more of the story and adding those odd details. It's a full fun insight rather than just if there were pictures. However although she is a comic artist and its supposed to be a diary for me personally sometimes they were there was a bit too much to read, I did feel a bit overwhelmed reading so much but I suppose once I got into it was interesting. As for Myfawny’s style it is pleasantly simple, and the facial expressions are quite cute too.
She mainly uses watercolour and sometimes digital, the sketch Diaries I read varied from all types of mediums as well as style and colour. I like the effect both; the colour it brightens up the scenes and there is more of a sense of being in the present. Whilst the non-coloured does a good job of creating the mood as if you’re looking at a memory like you're reflecting back.
Everything she documents on the journey she sometimes uses a lot of lines creating a cartoonish look whereas some pictures and others she just uses water colour without needing any outlines. Both offer a purpose, sometimes the landscape is captured only with watercolour which keeps a focus on the colours shapes and softness of a scene in comparison to the more cartoonish element of Myfawnys drawings within the storyboard surrounding people and characters.
I think a whole body of work is cool. It’s so in depth and insightful I feel like I'm there when I'm reading, one of my favourite elements of is sketch Diaries is the use of physical pieces of things like train tickets, envelopes stamps, receipts, and maps. I've kept a diary before but looking through these visual Diaries I may take some inspiration in the future by adding drawings to the pages rather than just the writing it's a really good way to keep memories especially when you can read your thoughts and they can connect with the images that can trigger a feeling or experience you had in the past.
https://myfanwytristram.com/category/sketch-diary/ - Her website
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