To introduce us to drawing speculatively, we were given a task to illustrate an opinion of our chosen authors in different ways. Firstly we explored font, where I have written his name in a charming yet almost careless manner. I wanted to highlight his genius and his rustic italian background. I also wanted to make reference to his notes in which he sculpts his plots.
We were also given the task of making an abstract mark that describes our author. As shown above, I created a very colourful, swirly mess using pencil crayon, attempting to illustrate his creative flare and knack for fabricating amazing amounts of information for his stories (e.g invisible cities).
In this section we were asked to draw a reoccurring motif from a chosen piece of writing. I chose the idea of a a city, and illustrated it using warm tones, and sketchy markings because of the way that his cities are often full of wonder and imagination. In opposition to that, we were challenged to draw the same motif in a different way using different media and colours etc. I went for a completely new approach using ink, to draw a dull, boring and unpicturesque city scape, which was the complete opposite way of how I could interpret it.
I found this task extremely useful in getting to grips with how to explore my author visually, and thinking outside the box. I thought the opposite-motif drawing was really useful in terms of opening up my mind to thinking outside the box and thinking less literally.
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