For the first part of this project, we used large newsprint pieces and folded them to create A4 loose ‘sketchbooks’. The idea was to have pages that were not precious.
Our tutor then found random words from magazines and we had around 60 second to draw whatever came to our heads, without any worry that it would be ‘rubbish’ or inappropriate or make no sense.

The first words called out were ‘Sinful’ and ‘Heights’.
This is what I created without any inner critic.
Using red and black oil pastels.

‘Swanky’ ‘Garden’.
This was fairly difficult as I didn’t know what the word ‘ Swanky’ really meant. I assumed it meant posh so I created two characters our of flowers and trees dressed in fancy clothes.
Oil Pastels

‘Shuttle’ ‘Diploma’
This also was a struggle because I didn’t know what type of shuttle to draw so It’s a mixture of a rocket and a plane and a bus and that is because it’s where my mind took me.
I used red felt tip pens and a black biro.

The second half of the studio session, we were given texts (short stories) to create some sketches from, in the same way as the previous task. Anything that comes to mind from the words in the text, it didn’t have to fall into the narrative of the text. The text was merely a guide to ideas.

I used the FAT WORKIE text.

I used mixture of Collage and Oil Pastels and fine liner.