I had a pair of old shoes that didn't work anymore so I decided to paint them white and draw on them. I painted them with acrylic since that's all I had. I didn't really draw on them for any other reason than it was something to do with them  but it it was useful practicing more with sharpies and making use of their 'draw on anything' quality by working on a different kind of surface. I once again didn't give the figures faces for no other reason than at the moment I like how that looks.

This is what my work looks like with the two revised pieces. While they still both stand out they fit in with the rest of the pieces better than the originals.
Unfortunately when I took this piece down from the exhibition I neglected to take the blue tack off the back of the pieces and they stuck together. Whilst removing the blue tack I caused a lot of minor damage tp a lot of the pages that I'll probably have to go back over and rectify.

I've also been thinking about how to better present the series of work since the exhibition. An obvious solution would be to get rid of the current format of presenting the work altogether and make the pieces into some sort of book either with or without the original text I drew from (siren's of titan).
I also thought of adapting my current way of presenting the work by instead of laying the pages out as a sort of square, laying them out n one long line. This was awkward to photo so I tried filming the line to try and recreate the look. I prefer this layout to the original as I feel I have enough pages to get the maximum affect from having a line of work whereas before the work seemed underwhelming and like it should be bigger. It still doesn't have the effect I aimed for when I started this project but at least it's closer to it than the original  layout.

This was the start of a piece I was doing for my drawing project. I was trying to draw in a new, loose way by quickly drawing lines with ink using a big brush. The problem with this was I was using ink too quickly and loosely so the image quickly got too distorted out of proportion for me to bother carrying on. Looking back on it now I don't think it looks too bad and I wish I'd carried on, unfortunately the drawing is 200 miles away.

During the drawing project one of the main things I've been thinking about (other than ways of combining colour into my drawing) is the scribbly nature of my drawing and the general sketchiness of my work. I actually really like this quality of my work so rather than learning to draw in defined linear way (which if needed can always be achieved using Photoshop or Illustrator)  I would rather learn to make the most of my works inherent sketchiness. To do this I have looked at a variety of artists who have a similar use of line or style.
Benoit Jacques (http://www.desordre.net/bloc/images/benoit_jacques_l_grande.jpg)
I like how Jacques uses lines to do everything in his work: shade, texture, add depth etc.I think the consistency of all the lines throughout his work are what make his work visually work and a dynamic quality to his drawings. My one concern with this approach is that finer details can easily get lost amongst the line and the drawing may not always be clear.









Raymond Pettibon (http://purple.fr/filestorage/cache/blog/9/7910/-11_balestin/-11_balestin_700_0_resize.jpg)
Raymond Pettibon's style is less scribly than Jacques, in fact the outline of the figure is pretty solid and defined. The way he's used line for shading however is pretty scribbly as is the background. I like this technique because it keeps an interesting, vibrant sketchiness to the work while also having it be more solid and defined unlike jacques work.

Vince Low (http://www.behance.net/VinceLow)
Vince Low's work is completely scribble but unlike the other artist's his work very structured and organised still. I think this takes away from the appeal of more natural sketchy work. It seems to me a better way to get a similar aesthetic effect would be to use defined normal lines. I would say his drawings lack the randomness that gives real sketchy/scribbley work it's appeal. His work is similar to Dryden Goodwin's but I prefer Goodwin's work because the use of line is more loose (despite being sharper) and chaotic.

 Here are my revised versions of the rwo pieces that I felt needed redoing from my exhibition, These two are both darker and fit with the colour scheme of the other pages more than the originals. I changed the fountain picture so that it was a birds eye view of it instead. This may make the piece less clear on what it is but fit with the concentric circle/ spiral theme of the work.