The starting point and theme for my project was: JOURNEY

As I was to travel back and forth between Brighton and London over the project period, I decided to document some of my journeys and experiences through observation and drawing. I wanted to maybe show some of the similarities and differences between the 2 vibrant cities.

I have always had a particular interest for the art of architecture and shown a personal enjoyment of including buildings in my illustrations. The brief was very broad and so I decided to just focus on something that I enjoyed. This subject matter also fitted in nicely with my idea of ‘journey’ because architecture is something which is all around us, and a lot of it I saw on my travels.

I started by taking some quick snaps as I walked through, and past places, to refer back to on my phone when sketching. I used the (boring) time of train journeys to my advantage and drew some small and quick sketches whilst on board.

I started to decide what it was I liked about my drawings, and what I thought was successful in my style. I started to combine some of my favourite images and shapes from my drawings together to create a combination of London and Brighton.

Later on in my blog I have included some of the artists I looked at during this project, and I think some of my drawings and their sketchy style definitely show influence and inspiration from looked at artist: Olivier Kugler. His work was also relevant to my project because he records journeys of which he has travelled, where he draws on location but also from reference of photos taken along travels.

I started to experiment more and because more expressive in my style, which I definitely think works well with the architecture and the ‘busyness’ I was trying to get across. I enjoyed working with more than 1 different type of material, which I thought also helped portray more textures/layers.

When looking at some artists who have referenced journey in their work, I found Ed Fairborn, who uses maps as a background to his work, so I began to experiment with maps, including the London tube map as a layer in my work.