Visual Language - What Is A Line? - Amsterdam Bikes

During the Easter break, I went to Amsterdam with Kirsty, and while I was there we must have seen a million bikes everywhere. It wasn't until the second day that I got to thinking that using the style of drawing I achieved with the previous drawings, if I were to do that but drawing bikes it could look quite interesting. So I set a little task upon myself for the remainder of the time that we were there to take photos of lots of different bikes. I felt a bit awkward doing it because I didn't know if the owners were anywhere near or anything so I didn't get as many as I would have liked to, but did get a sufficient amount.

Visual Language - What Is A Line? - Development

I sat and began this brief with the original idea of every day objects, so I looked what was around me and drew them using the drawing exercise where you don't lift your pen off the paper the whole time you are drawing until it is finished.

When ever I have done these exercises before, I always hated doing it, but after doing these I quite enjoyed it. I like the way that the lines are not completely certain so gives it a sort of quirky feel which is nice. You can tell immediately that they are hand drawn, which is the effect I am going for, so I will certainly continue with this style, and keep them all looking the same/similar.

Visual Language - What Is A Line? - Ideas

I put together a mind map of different subjects I could think of that I could draw.

My original idea that I have to produce for this brief is a book. I think to do a book would be quite nice because it would tie all the illustrations that I do together, and at the same time still allow them to work alone being on seperate pages. If I do have time I will consider other outcomes. I have been considering the type of book to do, and remembered one that we did in our book making induction called a Concertina fold, where the pages are basically folded like a fan and fold down into a book, but when folded out all the pages are linked together, as such:

This will be the type of book I produce because I think it will work the best with the whole idea for the brief, and I can have the line used to be continuous over all of the pages with no breaks.