We were set a journey to walk and to draw what we saw as we went. This journey was through town starting at Imperial Gardens and ending at the university. I started off drawing things that stood out, so there was a statue and old buildings...
Once we'd gotten back to university we had to set ourselves our own brief. I decided I wanted to focus on objects that reflected light and colour and then make an illustration that incorporated these things. So I went back out and walked the journey again, drawing a number of things that reflected light and colour. So I found traffic signs and bollards, traffic lights, buildings and crockery from a coffee shop.
We then had to come up with an illustration using the things we'd found.
The ideas I came up with was four different illustrations showing the different seasons of the year. In each image there would be a set of traffic lights and they would move to a different position with different lights showing as the images change. There will also be a tree in the background of each illustration and the tree will reflect the season. Each image also has an object of main focus, this object can be lifted (sort of like a pop-up book) to reveal the season written underneath, this making it suitable for children to assist with learning of seasons of the year.
These are examples of one of the illustrations and how they would work. I think I should have done more thumbnails of each illustration as I don't think the composition works 100%. I could have had the statue and traffic lights on opposite sides as having the statues back to the traffic lights doesn't really work, it's like the illustration is stuck from progressing. I also think the tree would have been better off centre. It's too central and causes the illustration to appear dull.
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