I had a what but I didn’t have a how or a who, in order to find my medium and audience I wanted to experiment with some drawing, one evening when I was feeling cluttered and frustrated I drew out what I felt, not focusing on what I was drawing but just playing with ideas while trying to communicate how I felt.

I then decided to meditate for 20 minutes and reflect on my day for 10 minutes, this made me feel much less frustrated and distracted, I then began to draw while trying to communicate this.

I really like this spread and it felt like the true start of my project, as before I was constantly flip-flopping on style and content, but this came naturally and everything I drew fit together, I liked the blobby, loose and childish style and wanted to produce imagery that was innocent in a way where it feels childish but conveys information effectively, I didn’t want the style to be off-putting to any age so wanted the tone of my illustrations to be friendly but informative.

Continuation of visual experimentation, I tried to illustrate mental clutter and hyperactivity again, but in a similar style, I also played with colors using the most psychologically calming pallets based on a paper I read about psychology and color theory, I then tried to contrast these colors with reds and yellows as these are associated with danger in nature. I used these colour combos as I heavily considered producing prints based on the cluttered drawings I had made previously, utilizing overprinting to mix colours.