'Make your Mark' Brief: My Backpack/Badges.

 We're continuing to explore different ideas for our brief. At the minute I'm looking at my little black backpack and my badges. I actually got my backpack at Chesterfield market, since then I've always had badges and brooches that I've attached to it. The problem is I'm always losing or breaking these badges, so they're always being replaced or changed around. I thought this would be an interesting thing to document. I started with a couple of collage/pen/ink illustrations of my backpack and a few of my badges.

I really like how this first piece came out, although for the text ('and all the badges I've loved and lost'.) I wished I had used a sea green/dark green colour. I think it would have worked much better. 

This is two of my badges, one broken and one surviving. It's a shame the colouring on the frog didn't quite work as I think it would have made a nice page! 

Minimalistic collage of a woman brooch I had. This is growing on me. Initially I wasn't sure, but I like the minimal colours and the use of white space.

A quick blind drawing/ink drawing of some buttons and badge pins. I think what works is the limited colour and the mix of detail and basic line.

Same as above really, but with my broken frog pin. 

Another of a pin in ink detail, with collage areas of another broken brooch. I'm really enjoying what I'm doing so far, but I need to expand it further. I'm thinking of illustrating the entire collection, just producing more work. I think I'll do this along with experimenting with bypass printing over my Independent Study days, as well as that I'd like to keep working on the hands idea. 

On another note, this is my 40th blog post! Worth a miniature celebration.

Daily Drawings/Journal Entry.

As part of the Visual Communication pathway stage we have daily observational drawing tasks, I've really been enjoying this challenge, and also managed to get other people involved drawing blind continuous line portraits the other night! I thought I'd share a few of my favourites from the last few days. These are from the blind/continuous line portraits, and objects (from a list we made) in block/negative shape collage.

Cecelia

Maddy

Pesto, I liked the muted colours here, but wish you couldn't see the crack in the negative green area!

Pens/Books, I think the layout and colour works well as a double page spread.

Maddy/Cecelia Spread. I'm enjoying the daily tasks and think it's really getting me used to the pace of this pathway! I'll try and share more of my favourites along the way.