Creating Illustrations from Mapping a Journey

We were set the task of mapping a journey from one place to another. We could choose where we went, we just had to draw what we saw. I went to the university's Library and one thing I noticed was the endless amount of doors. There were a mixture of really old doors and new doors so I decided to focus my drawings on these.

After drawing doors there was two areas that caught my eye. One was a window that let in a lot of light and on the window sill there was a plant that was reflecting the light from the window and also creating shadows with it's leaves.










I also noticed on the skirting boards there were these dark shapes cut out from the wood, that sort of looked like mice holes.

 When we got back to class our second task was to create an illustration/story from the drawings images we captured. I thought about the doors for a little while and tried to work out how I could incorporate all the doors into one illustration. I liked the idea of doors opening so decided to layer the doors and cut them so that each door could open, giving it a sort of maze effect, not knowing what you'll open the door too next. Once you've opened the last door you are faced with the dark 'mouse hole' shape. So you'll never know what's at the end, apart from a dark whole, this gives it a bit of mystery and allows the mind to come up with an ending.




I think I should have used a bit of colour in this illustration as it's quite boring in grayscale and also colour would have made the end point (if kept in black and white) more effective. I also think I should have done something with the back of the doors as the plain white takes away from the effect of the doors. If I'd made them look like doors on the back as well then the effect of doors opening would have carried on the illusion.
Despite these points I do really like the idea of this illustration. I think it's more interesting than what a flat drawing would have been.