My Working Process

A lot of my tutors have been asking me why don’t I finish off my sketchbooks. I think what they really mean is why do I have so many? While it is true that I have double figures of sketchbooks currently, I find that having individual sketchbooks for different parts of my project is crucial to my practice. In this diverse, cultural and historical project it is hard to keep track of the many parts and styles. I find by keeping my sketchbooks for different drawing styles, I can distinguish between different styles more easily. I can also categorise these sketchbooks according to drawing style, whether colour or not was used, historical era and cultural inspiration. 

 This will help me when I am designing because I can decide what sketchbook is most relevant according to the design I am creating. Of course, with this many sketchbooks, I think the problem of having too many can be the issue because I can forget what work I have done. I think the way to avoid this is to keep looking through my sketchbooks as well as displaying my work to remind and inspire me. This will be crucial when it comes to designing my digital fabrics. If I ever get uninspired, I can always look through the sketchbooks to excite me back into the project. 

Alongside this, I plan to also take scans of my drawings so they can be more easily accessed to me on my computer and when I design in Photoshop. In this case, I won’t only have physical copies of my drawings but also a digital record of them, making them easily accessible for designing and promotion. Essentially I think I am working in a way that I am having physical sketchbooks alongside digital ones too. These can be seen to be my categorised folders where I keep my work but also this website. My very own digital, online sketchbook.