Drawing

I also wanted to get back to drawing again and so felt that this would be the perfect opportunity to practice my illustrative skills. I wanted my context for this piece to be an interior based surface, I chose to focus on pinecone and fawn illustrations which I intentionally moved towards a Scandinavian/folk theme within the Mid winter brief. I wanted these interior based surfaces to be for both children and adults. A company called ‘Love Mae’ particularly stood out when I was researching for my child interiors, it is an Australian based company that supplies adhesive fabric decals for the home and children.

Using this as a context directly impacted how I did my illustrations for the brief, I was also heavily influenced by children's books and how animals are illustrated when children are the main audience. In order to get interesting texture to the illustrations I decided to draw them on watercolour paper which worked well due to the colouring of the paper being off-white contrasting to the dark fine liner pen that I used. 

I also experimented using watercolour paint in some of the images but these were not as successful as I'd have hoped, so I decided to use 'Kurecolour' permanent ink pens used by graphic artists. The wide nib helped create curves and also added depth to the illustrations by going over certain sections more then others. The fawn illustrations I directed more towards a children’s interior creating a fawn and pinecone motif that would have been suitable for cushions that could be embroidered into with detail. For the wallpaper I went for a singular fawn within a snowy scene.