Sketch books
We had a lecture with one of our tutors about sketchbooks.
Sketch-Make or do
Book-Story
To create your own story through creating within the pages.
Sketchbooks are there as your own visual diary, to get down your ideas and thought onto paper, be risky and have fun in them. It should always include your brief as you must understand and refer back to it throughout the project you are working on. Artist research must have relevance to your project and steered your ideas, if you reference an artist you must include your development in response to this.
I think that the idea of the sketchbook as a visual diary is a useful tool and to not be as precious about what is put in them as that is what they are there for, the mistakes, or 'happy accidents'.
"Do not fear mistakes there are none" Miles David.
I found this quote when doing my group research for the project but i felt this related to what he as saying in the lecture. Sketchbooks are a useful tool and you should not be as precious about what is put in them. They are there for the mistakes, or 'happy accidents' and these accidents could form the basis of something original. Repetition and practice helps you improve and generates new ideas.
Sketchbook Seminar.
For our seminar we had to bring in examples of good sketchbooks design so we could discuss them in smaller groups. The are so many good examples to find that I was spoilt for choice really.
I chose two sets of sketchbook works that I felt were effective. Both of which are mainly illustration, but border the line between graphic design and illustration. Brent asked us to choose works which was not predominately our own discipline so as to understand more than just our own practice.
Pep Carrio.
Carrio's work is a mixture of collage and illustration. On these examples we see his use of both extremes of styles. For the chaotic patterning, and collaging to the subtle drawing on a playing card. I like his work because it's very simple, even the patterned covered page is simple in design. He has used a minimal two colours colour scheme which compliments the simplicity.
Chad
Chad's work is mainly illustration, but his subject matter includes a lot of typography which in particular interests me. He uses lots of different materials collaged together. He has paid particular attention to the detailing even on the smallest of texts and everything is finished. Some are more simple and others quite complicated, but even though they are all from the same artist, they don't seem to have one defined style. As if they haven't quite found it yet.
We discussed Leanardo Da Vinci and his sketchbooks. How he studied the body and this taught him how to draw them proportionately. Sometimes, when you can see a sketch/design not going so well, you quit. But maybe you need to stick at it and improve.
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