Reportage Sketchbooks P2

Sketchbook 4

My main issue when starting this module was that I was unable to draw quickly enough - I still kept my wrist fairly stiff and was not very free with my drawing style (I was much too neat and cautious). To combat this, I did a lot of drawing on the bus - it was difficult to keep my wrist stiff and my lines neat this way, and it freed my drawing style up a substantial amount. This book is filled with linework using a felt tip pen.

Sketchbook 5

It was in this book that I started to explore my surroundings and not just the people in them - I also started to develop a more loose drawing style using either felt tip or fineliner. Up until this point most of my experimentation was with my own method of drawing, not any materials that I had decided to use.

Sketchbook 6

This is the first sketchbook of my reportage project that really starts to look at experimenting with materials - some of the drawings were created with traditional methods such as quick ink, gouache, and soft pastel, whereas other drawings were created with more unusual media such as makeup (lipstick/eyeliner) or sugar water with watercolour paints. Some of the less traditional materials were hard to use, and even months after its creation the sugar water with watercolour paints piece is still sticky; however, it was useful to find out about these unusual methods now rather than later.