Drawing Project Initial Ideas

Examples from A4 Sketchbook

Black india ink applied with brush and stick

I decided to study the urban environment. To get started I made some Ink drawings of various locations around Leicester that I thought might be interesting. I found myself attracted to areas which are more derelict, such as Frog Island. There I discovered a myriad of run down buildings which became subject of these initial drawings. I was very interested in the structure of the buildings, and the lines which form them. I used India ink as this is a very direct medium, great for getting the structural elements of the landscape down onto paper.