Naomi an Illustration Sketchbook

 1.3 How personal do you want your sketchbook to be? To hide, or not to hide?   Where do you stand on how personal a sketchbook should be?  To date I use my sketchbooks to sketch down idea. To capture people I have seen, weather conditions, an image that I see attached to words that I like. I don't believe that my sketchbooks have been overtly personal and I don't believe that people would necessarily see a deeper personal message in my sketchbooks so far.  However, I do hope that when people look at my sketches they do get to see a piece of me and start to gain an understanding of who I am. I would like my sketchbooks to become more personal, self reflection.  Do you want to reveal your soul or just comment about your ideas or your images? I think a sketchbook should be flexible and versatile. Spontaneous and contain planning. A sketchbook should be everything.  Therefore if on certain days you do reveal your soul, then that is great and I would like to st...

 1.2 Making mistakes - Working fast and cutting work up As requested I worked on separate sheets of paper, quickly to show various views.   To the front of me: A4 white paper. HB pencil.  Behind me: A4 white paper. Red pencil crayon.  To the right of me: A4 white paper. Black marker pen.  And to the left of me:   A4 white paper. Purple wax crayon.  I then followed the next step and I started to fold the papers and cut up the sketches to produce small sketchbooks:   Can you work in it again with another mark-making implement or colour? Or, do you want to leave it as it is?  I chose to look at the sketches again. I drew each view in a conventional way. Not necessarily through choice but more of an uncertainty of how to do it in any other way. I revisited each page and coloured in shapes that I saw with various media, crayons, coloured pencils and felt tips.   Are other ideas sparked from looking at each page? Are you reminded of something ...

 1.1 What is your relationship with your sketchbook?  Do you already keep a sketchbook?  Yes. I work on separate sheets of paper, sketching on just a single sheet. I then stick these sheets within a book.   I keep sketchbooks for my studies and then a sketchbook for my personal work. To date, these have remained very separate.   Is it an extension of you?  I feel my personal work is an extension of me. I draw what I feel inspired by, if I'm uninspired I find it really difficult to create. I think my very best drawings have happened when my mind and my heart engage. It's like something beyond the pencil and paper can happen. This is when I really feel the magic of creating. My studies have been functional to date, and I don't believe very much of myself has been revealed within them. However I am really hoping this module will change that.  Is it just a functional object that holds ideas?  Not just functional no, although of course I do w...

 1.0 What sort of sketchbook should I use?  As requested, I worked my way through the many questions asked. This has been incredibly insightful and a thorough look at my sketchbook practises to date and my behaviour, practice, and anxieties I have during my creative journey.  I am unsure what exact sketchbooks I will be using a this very moment. As I continue to navigate through a lockdown I will collect together all of the loose sheets of paper I have, lined, coloured, brown paper, white paper. As to date I am more comfortable with loose sheets, I will start here and look to bind the pages together as I go. I will endeavor to use sheets of all sizes. 

 1.1 Research Task  Artist's Sketchbooks Danny Gregory 1960- Capturing a moment of the every day. "Making everyday matter".  Gregory sketches in pen and ink  in journals, often over a double page.  The colours are so clean and vibrant against the black lines. The sketches make the situation, like breakfast look more exciting than the real deal.  The shadows in blue are a creative and striking way of achieving tonal changes on the white porcelain.  The lines are far from perfect or precise, they just flow with a natural fluidity.  Edward Hopper 1882-1967 A visual response to the scene. Beautiful, peaceful drawings using a combination of pencil, charcoal and watercolour.  The sketches are so atmospheric, a sense of belonging to the scenes bellow. Hopper includes light and shadow, dark tones that not only depict the scene but the mood also.  Detailed sketches that are so accomplished.  The figures in the drawings are crucial in the int...