MASi

After researching the Manchester made inventions I wanted to make into my illustrations, I started to draw them out in the simple line style of this project's influence, Roderick Mills. These drawings were done from existing images of the sometimes very old inventions, I had to improvise on some details as the photographs were either poor or didn't exist. I tried to make it so these drawings were clear and obviously that invention, making it easy for people to recognise each one and therefore its connection to Manchester.

 

These are two of my line drawings which I used in my final Manchester piece. I think the simple lines work well with the images and I that everything isn't neat and joined up. This looser, rougher look is similar to Roderick Mills' work with his free hand drawings.

Next I wanted to add a little colour to the images as the idea was to create work with commercial appeal I think they would be drawn to it more if I added interest through colour. At first I wanted to add the colour through Photoshop but was advised of a different way by tutors which I thought would work well with my style of drawing. By making blocks of colour roughly in the shape of my drawings it give it a more hand made feel and in the end set of the black lines of the drawing well.

 

I was advised to find a way of joining up each drawing as they seemed to be floating on the page with no link to each other. I fixed this by adding the dotted line and the hand drawn text, in a similar style to Roderick Mills' work. I feel that my piece turned out well in the end but would have tried to improve the drawings and the colours if I had more time to do it over.