I wanted to push myself with this brief and test my imagination so I thought of an everyday object for each letter of the alphabet and then tried to draw them made from a variety of vegetables. I had to think about the shapes of the vegetables and where they would be most appropriately used. It was quite challenging to draw something in a way so that it was still recognisable as a vegetable but also looked enough like something else for it to be recognised as an object as well. I think some are less clear than others such as the jigsaw made from pepper slices and the zipper made from a butternut squash - these definitely need improving and re-thinking. If I decide to take this theme forward, I also think I should improve my knowledge of vegetables through research so that I have a wider range and don't have to use the same vegetable twice.
I thought of the theme of 'things that would make the world a better place' and I started off with quite serious ideas. I thought this was a standard, uninteresting approach so I decided to take a more humorous, nonsense approach instead.
Ideas: Animals wearing hats, burger beds, bear hugs, chocolate trees, day trips to space, elephant taxis, friday everyday, fragrant dog poop, happy hospitals, indoor beaches, jelly chairs, lily pad islands, marshmallow beds, money plants, never growing up, no violence, open bars, picnics in the sky/clouds, rubber duck boats, squirrel servants, trips to the moon, twister at bus stops, underwater lifts, weather controls, xylophone pavements, yoyo swings, zip wire bridges.
These were really fun to think about and draw. I am particularly pleased with my elephant taxi drawing - I looked at the ideas learnt about in Wednesday's context of practice lecture on visual literacy and this sparked the idea of using the check pattern found on New York city cabs to portray the elephant as a taxi.
My final alphabet is based on ways of keeping warm. There was a lot of potential ideas for this theme including objects and actions so I tried to keep a mix of both of these so I cold draw a range of things. I kept my drawings quite simple and forced myself to commit to my line work by using a permanent pen. I re-drew my massage drawing because I wasn't happy with how it looked. The second drawing is an improvement but I feel there is still a better way of showing this. One drawing I am particularly pleased with on this sheet is of the knitting because I used very simple mark making but I feel the outcome is quite realistic. I think this is something I could use in the future when drawing knitted clothing to show the texture. I feel my 'Xtra layers' drawing needs more work as I look back at it now - I don't think it would be clear to other people what I am trying to show.
Ideas: Aerobics, alcohol, blanket, breathe on hands, bath, cup of tea, cuddles, coat, drinking something warm, dressing gown, electric blanket, exercise, fire, fleece, grow a beard, gloves, hat, hug yourself, hot water bottle, huddle, indian food, jumping, jacuzzi, knit a scarf, laugh, massage, nightcap, oven, pets, quilt, rub hands, radiator, socks, slippers, soup, shiver, toast, toaster, thermals, ugg boots, vapour rub, wooly socks, walking, wriggle toes, 'Xtra' layers, yomping, yorkshire pudding and gravy, zumba.
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