This is one of the pages I liked the least, but one that my teacher liked the most…

The drawing on the left is from an exercise where we were told to look at something in the room and then close our eyes and draw it. I chose a pile of planks that were stacked in a corner. Then we were to use the shape we got from that to make a pattern. The colour palette I used was from an image on a postcard drawn randomly from my teachers collection. She used that to teach us about how serendipity can be quite important in design, and that we need to keep an open mind and let our designs change as we go.

The right page is a filt pen drawing of a couple of buildings and a construction site outside our classroom window. In this exercise we were told to NOT think about perspective or about trying to draw nicely. The purpose of our sketch was to record shapes and patterns from what we saw, rather than making a good drawing (that is something I think I need to work on allowing myself do a bit more.. I still don’t like this page because the perspective obviously is wrong, and that bugs me, but that doesn’t mean I’ve not managed to get down some patterns that can be used in design elements at a later stage of the design development.