January - 2017

Penguin Student Design Awards 2018

Claire Marchant

Illustrator • Designer

Blog: Idea Generator

A Sense of Place - Media Experimentation

A Sense of Place - Media Experimentation

Inspired by the icy, cracked textures I had documented during my visits to Brookwood Cemetery, I created these quick ink sketches. The dip ink pen allowed me to create scratchy textures and use thick/thin lines to draw the viewer's attention to important elements - the grave stones. I photocopied the ink drawings and used green ink and brown/grey watercolour paint to bring the drawings to life, although I think that the mood of the coloured drawings are too cheerful, and keep

Investigating Brookwood Cemetery

Investigating Brookwood Cemetery

Photograph has been a passion of mine since I happened upon studying Photography A-Level at College. So, when I went to Brookwood cemetery, and the weather wasn't particularly conducive to sitting and drawing from observation (snowing), I took lots of photos. Textures have been my key focus in photography and my artwork previously, so I naturally gravitated toward focusing on textures at Brookwood. I also chose to use charcoal as a way of creating quick gestural drawings, whi

Toby Morison Workshop + Brookwood Cemetery Drawings

Toby Morison Workshop + Brookwood Cemetery Drawings

Visiting lecturers are always inspirational or motivational. Gaining in depth knowledge on working practitioners in the field I am studying for is invaluable. I had looked up some of Toby Morison's work online before his talk, but hearing how he designed them and his reasonings behind the use of composition or object placement really helped give me a sense of his working thought process and how I could think about my location research. Some key things to note... observing con

Construct, observe and reimagine

Construct, observe and reimagine

Sometimes it's important to step out of your comfort zones, step out of reality and make something that you've never seen before. That's exactly what we did in this group workshop. Using found object such as paper cups, wooden pegs and toothpicks we each made an object. From this, we drew it from different angles, perspectives, lighting and using different media each time to really push us out of our comfort zones. The image below left is created through tracing my object's s

Using photographs as reference

Using photographs as reference

I found the book above in the library, and I liked the aesthetic of the 1960's/70's USA (or around then I'm guessing). I particularly liked the black and white image above taken by Cindy Sherman. The composition use of Rule of Thirds to have the foreground figure drawing the eye makes it appealing. The layers of imagery could also be used and developed to respond to the brief, as there are various areas to focus on and draw. On Sherman's website, the series this image is from

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