Pages from my Sketchbook

Oh, It's been a while, I do apologise, I've been doing many new things lately, much less photography, in fact I've decided to do a degree in Fine Art, as opposed to Photography, more freedom, more opportunity to expand my practice. I'm still taking photos, and I can use photography as another medium in a fine art context. I've applied to UCA Farnham and accepted a place with AUB as my Insurance choice

This post is a collection of scans from my sketchbook, this is the first time I've really kept a sketchbook, and I've started to take it with me everywhere I go. I've found It's a great help in developing ideas and my own drawing skills.

some pages are just backgrounds ready to be drawn on when the moment or subject arises

ever notice how many people are on their gadgets on public transport, it's easy to draw them, they don't move or even look up from their phones

speedy drawing, without looking at the paper.

me + deadlines = no thankyou

Collage in relation to one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands Turn On the Sun Again by The Real Tuesday Weld

a self portrait, gone wrong.

These last four pages will be worked into, the bottom two I think I'll use in life drawing tomorrow afternoon

more music inspired collage, The Real Tuesday Weld - I Always Kill the Things I Love and Ghosts

Southampton Solent University Open Day

Went to Southampton Solent open day today, I got there in good time and had a tour around the campus before going to a talk, If it's not completely obvious from my blog I am/want to be a photographer, but the first talk I went to was on Photojournalism (I had an hour to spare) I didn't for one moment think I wanted to be on this course, Journalism really isn't my thing but I am very interested in reportage and documentary photography. It was interesting and informative on what to expect if I did go into the photojournalistic world. I had to leave the tour early to get to the photography talk, but spoke to the photojournalist tutor and told him that I was interested in photography but wanted to see what the photojournalism was all about since I take photos for my stepdad's racing team (CM Motorsport) which is definitely in the photojournalism criteria.

The Photography talk itself didn't really excite me, but I was given a book of this years student's work, and it looks pristine, I'm totally keeping it for inspiration. after the talk we got to look around the facilities which look very good, the building it was in had been recently refurbished, and there was a large wet and dry black and white darkroom as well as a just as large colour darkroom. I asked the tutor about alternative processes and he said they did a workshop on calotypes and ambrotypes etc which sounds good. 

The only negative* I could find was that the rest of the campus looked a bit old, and it's too close to home, I need to move away, I need my independence, I need to grow up.

I'm glad I went to the open day because I got voucher for a free cup of tea from costa, which was lovely, I went shopping after and bought some cute mechanical pencils (HB, ooh my drawing tutor is going to cry a little). I went to the Art Gallery and bought a book called Dan Hays Impressions of Colorado, I thought it was a photography book, I just read a bit it's actually full of paintings that look like highly pixelated digital photographs. Plus it was only a pound, awesome. 

I got the bus home, and started to draw people on the bus, I really need to stop this, I always feel sick when I get off. my arm was pressed against the window whilst drawing this since I had someone sat next to me made it hard to keep the pencil still so I'll call it experimental drawing.

This guy looked miserable, so I drew him.

When I got home my mum had put the christmas tree up and decorated it. so I guess Merry Christmas...?

again I am not a writer, please correct any grammatical errors that may be in this post... please.

Bonus: I listened to part of the soundtrack from Buffy the Vampire Episode "Hush" whilst writing this and it's thoroughly creeped me out.

*haha see what I did there, negative... hohoho it's a photography blog oh I am so funny.

Amy tried to draw...

Sometimes I convince myself I can draw, and sometimes my drawings come out pretty awesome, most of the time however they don't.
Here's a post full of drawings I've made that somehow turned out pretty awesome.

 So this first image is actually the most recent attempt I've made, It's a drawing of someone from a photograph by one of my favourite photographers on flickr [click here], I felt compelled to draw him for some reason, most likely it was his wonderful hair.

Ah, these were drawing's of ceramic statue's I'd found about online, my apologies I cannot remember the name of the artist or even a link to where I found the image, It was a very cool set of work, the basic principle was that a lot of ceramic dolls are cutesy and always nice, the artist wanted to keep their nice, sweet expressions but do things like rip their guts out and make them hold them like a bunch of flowers or just chop their heads off and rip their brains out, very morbid, but rather intriguing. [relevant link]

Just a simple doodle, I quite liked drawing his stubble, and attempting to draw accurately from life... never again, I'm horrendous at keeping true to form.

oh, and my concentration levels in biology lessons hmm.

(bonus the rainbow was from a simple chromatography demonstration in a chemistry lesson)

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