Jeff Skeoch

Drawing with Paper

This exercise was all about opening our minds up to the varying mediums available to us as designers and illustrators, be it collage, painting or in this case using paper. The brief was to try and communicate the atmosphere and feelings we picked up from our visit to Poole Quay, by using colours and shapes to create an illustration.

Drawing inspiration from artists like Rob Ryan and Kim Demarco, I was interested by the use of only a limited amount of colour, and instead concentrating more on the use of abstract shapes and perspectives to create a darker more sinister Tim Burton style of landscape. Kim Demarco creates a strong feeling of atmosphere by using darker colours and unusual shapes, so by using black and dark blue i tried to create a more abstract and unusual image of Poole Quay.

It was nice to work with materials other than just a pencil an paper, it pushes you out of your comfort zone and forces you to have a more clear cut idea about what you want to achieve and how you intend going about it. I am keen to explore other mediums of illustration and design and have a go at them myself. I found using paper made me focus much more how colours sit together and how the actual reasoning behind an image is so important.