Concept and colour palette refinement

Throughout this unit I have struggled to find an area that I have been confident in developing. Despite making good progress with my work on graffiti and man-made marks, I wanted to incorporate different elements of my earlier work and find a colour palette that works well with this.

This week, I feel like I have finally found the area I want to focus on. Again I looked back through my initial drawings sketchbook where I was immediately drawn back to my work on buildings. I took the advice of my tutor and started working in a larger sketchbook. The large scale drawings were definitely more successful than the smaller ones I had initially done. I started working in black and white again, being careful not to over complicate my colour palette early on. At this point I was still very interested in the colours I had looked at when working looking at graffiti and wanted to possibly bring these into my next drawings.

Starting with black and white copies of my earlier drawings, scanned in and enlarged, as the basis of these drawings made it easier to refine my colour palette. 

black and white building 

colour palette added to the above drawing

scaffolding

Photographed above are two my first drawings, on a larger scale. Drawing in this way brought me out of my comfort zone and got me to think more closely about what I'm drawing, and placement.

As can be seen from the second image above, I have now worked out a distinct colour palette of reds, pinks, orange, and yellow. This came as a slight accident when I was printing some of my own photos off using my personal printer. As the cyan ink cartridge had almost run out, the image printed in mainly these reds and pinks. This reminded me of some of the photos of graffiti I had that I looked at in my earlier work.

The series of drawings to follow, incorporated buildings and other building structures as well as my new, well refined colour palette. The more drawings I was doing, the more I had a sense of how I wanted to develop them into sample later on. I was predominantly focusing on the shapes in the buildings; looking at a more geometric aspect rather than looking at them as a whole. The later drawings in my sketchbook include the reintroduction of the graffiti work I had done earlier. I felt that although some parts of them worked well, they didn't link well enough to the rest of my drawings to make sense developing this idea further.