Pen Drawings

Original Drawings –

I’ve never actually revealed any process behind the textural images that I used on the elements of the ‘Balance of Power Mobile’. I feel that now might be a good time to show some of them. As my drawings were actually always meant to be incidental to my work I tended to neglect this. It was just idle doodling on my part – or was it? I found that I really enjoyed the digitisation process of the drawings and particularly cleaning them up. I found sitting quietly with ‘Photoshop Fix’ and its excellent spot healing brush was really quite cathartic.

As I mentioned in earlier posts I gave myself strict rules for these designs.

They had to be drawn freehand and if any mistakes were made the mistakes had to be woven into the design and not erased or covered up. I’m not entirely sure why I self imposed these rules other than to make the drawing process more interesting and challenging. Below are a selection of images from my sketch books.