manifesto

I am an artist who likes to draw taking my time with shape and detail, where I transfer my drawings to other mediums like Photoshop, print making or even 3D work based around my drawings, where I have used such materials like clay. The main materials I use are pen and pencil to create my drawings, where I believe I am good at drawing objects in front of me like bottles and paint brushes or I would find in image on the internet, where most of the drawings I did for my foundation course came from, like I would find an image of a football club logo and draw the image by hand.

With my drawings instead of what a lot of illustrators would do is to create 2D pieces of work from there drawings like paintings, I tent to create 3D pieces of work based around my drawings like I would print of my drawings once I transferred them to Photoshop and added colour to them and then stick them around plastic cup, bottles and ceramic mugs.

As an artist I am open to different ways of working, if it’s creating sculptures like book sculptures, taking photos, drawing, creating lino and etching prints and working on Photoshop, most of the pieces of work I have created have resulted in one simple drawing like a flower drawing and then the work would come to life.

I am open to freed back from my tutors and listing to their advice about what I can do during a project, to improve on my ideas and different techniques and processes I can explore, to help improve my work and advance my thinking on a project on how to take it further and if I should use on of the techniques or processes to create finished pieces of work.

My work does include colour some of the time, if I am working on Photoshop or creating etchings or book sculptures, but I don’t add much colour to my drawings themselves, because I prefer to do the colouring throw other mediums like Photoshop.

With my artwork I am my own biggest critic, where I expect my work to keep on improving and to be good drawings no matter what I choose to draw and if I feel it’s not up to my standard I don’t like it, unless I can fix my drawings by going over the drawing in a different medium like pen to make the drawing clearer or transfer it to Photoshop and have a play around with the filters and colours to see if I can created a good image from the drawing.

One of my main weaknesses as an artist is I struggle to draw moving objects and painting because I like to draw objects and people if needed standing still so I can make more detailed drawings, with painting I prefer to colour my drawings throw other sources like Photoshop or colouring pens or pencils. I feel the main area in which I have to improve on is drawing people and being more accurate in some areas of my drawings.