my little sketchbook

Over the summer I've kept a little sketchbook where I've created patterns and started my developed process for my digital images. There's something I love the freedom of working by hand, documenting and working through ideas. I used fine liners and posca pen a lot, I love the effect they create when used together, the contrasts of the line thickness and textures of the pens. From page to page in my sketchbook I play with composition, I found having a lot of negative space on some images but none on others creating a really interesting mixture of designs. This is something I love in editorials, layout is one of my favourite things to be creative with. 

This is a simple design of my favourite flower, daisies. I try not to over work images leaving them clean cut and minimal. I found having the flowers in a row made the image more graceful then if they filled the page. Below is an image I created of different houses. I tried to give the houses personality by having them lean to one side or another, to me they even look like they have faces! 

For this image I used 2 thickness' of fine liner, there's something I like about them just being a simple line as the houses have lots of character. However I plan to work over this image on illustrator to create a colourful, refined image. When I develop this image I will rearrange the pattern to see what works best! My inspiration for this design was the houses on my street, on a rainy day looking out the window I wanted to see how much fun I could inject into them. :) 

When the sun decided appear I got myself into the garden to create some patterns from my surroundings! I really enjoy this simple way of illustrating and it was an inspiration for many of my digital patterns on my previous post. I love this colour scheme of vibrant summery colours, developing colour schemes is one of my favourite things to do, the possibilities and combinations are endless and thats so exciting!