Influences of Summer II

After drawing different art deco inspired pieces I have moved onto much more structured architecture, I started to struggle drawing from the images and was not happy with my outcomes. I prefer the clear shapes from my body drawings and the minimalistic look. I thought I’d try a different kind of detailed drawing so I moved onto different kind of structural buildings, with neater lines and more straight shapes than the curves and patterns of art deco.

 I’ve drawn from the arch de triumph and some modern buildings in different cities I have been to over summer, like Liverpool and Manchester which I unfortunately didn’t capture with my camera. Although I did like working from memory as I think it can manipulate your drawing by remembering what you thought was most interesting about the building.

These drawings include lots of straight lines, very structured and planned out onto graph paper which reminded me of Winde Rienstra’s work. She used lots of straight lines and overlapping lines similar to geometric patterns on top of simple white garments. Very simple colour schemes.

Winde Rienstra

 I like the symmetry of this style work and I really enjoyed working in a mathematical way as I can’t knit over summer. I love the layered lines and how the density of lines varies across the drawing. I have missed the equipment available in university, like the knitting machines and yarns available to compare to your drawing and I would have really liked to include Photoshop into my sketch book but had no access to using it. I have been considering yarn choice though from my drawings and different techniques I’d use. I would like to use lots of ladder, hook ups and different tensions of knitting to create the varied tensions of the lines and the hook up repeatedly showing the layered lines.