Sketchbook Mega Crit

Today we got a chance to look at the level 4 and 5's summer sketchbooks which was SO exciting, they were all amazing. Although it was really scary seeing such professional and polished work and wondering if I'll ever make anything this good, it was also really inspiring. What I loved most about all the work was that its all so diverse and honestly no two pieces looked the same, which made me realise that everyones different styles of art can look great. 

One of my favourite pieces was some collage pages I found, I'm not sure who they were by as the sketchbook didn't have a name on, but the simplicity and striking colour of them drew me in. For something with such simple shapes and design, it really communicates the idea of an image well to the viewer. I also really like the collage technique, it looks so textured and colourful.



These doodled sketchbook pages also caught my eye, again I really like the simplicity of these, but unlike the last ones these only used one accent colour (grey). This works really well as the actual image is quite busy and the lines quite fine but them we see these blocks of grey colour and it looks really effective. 




These two images were two of the last ones I managed to look at and I think they're personally my favourites. At the beginning of this persons sketchbook, there was a very detailed landscape of some flowers done in really muted hues that they'd done and them on the page next to that they'd written something along the lines of "This is not the type of art I want to be making. This amount of detail does not make me happy.". And in the pages after that you could see they let themselves be so much more free with it and in my opinion the work was much more organic and striking. These are a few of the quick sketches they made while going on holiday and I think they're beautiful. 




Overall I think this exercise has only made me more excited to continue on to levels 4 and 5 and see what work I can make. I really hope that my drawing skills can improve this much by the end of the year and continue to improve as at the moment they are not my strong point.