Local Folk is one of the last projects from the visual communication project, and was highly different from the prievious ones that we had been working on. The idea of this project was to capture and observer by using our sketchbooks to create quick sketches of people we saw out and about. The idea of the project was to focus on our observation and also our mark making skills.
Unfortunately due tom self shielding and being careful due to corona I was only to visit one other place which was Canalside farm. Other than that all drawing were capture from the windows of my house.For this project I chose to work traditionally using sketchbook, Indian ink and finer liner. I liked working with the Indian ink and fine liner as it added depth to the image and gave a sense of tone and colour.
Below shows all my individual drawings, each with annotation and information regarding each character and the scene that I found them in. I was happy with how they all turned out and felt they all looked rather effective within the mark making I used. My favourite page was the third photo showing a lady pushing a pram on the one side, and a man cleaning the bins on the right page. I like these two as I feel they both have very different elements. The lady seems to be pushing the baby whilst walking the dog maybe trying to get the baby off to sleep? Whilst the man on the left seemed to be doing his weekly job of washing the bins in my area shortly after being emptied. Not only do I like the analysis and annotation Heinz these two but I also like the use of mark making as I feel the lifework is strong and effective and reflects the character that I saw out the window.
Overall, Im really happy with how these pages turned out, however, there are three pages missing from this blog post. I chose not to include these as I did not feel they were as effective and instead lacked the charter I was trying to capture. I would love to develop these characters moving forward and see how they could ne used to tell their story maybe in a narrative or even a second more refined piece of work.
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