After my success last summer with getting one of my drawings accepted into the Sock Gallery Open Exhibition, I thought I would give it a go this year too. Admittedly, I put off the task of producing something to submit probably for longer than I should have. In fact, I only knuckled down and got going with this two days before the submission date.
I followed on the theme from last year and stuck to dog portraits. I have noticed french bulldogs are quite in fashion at the moment and I thought the texture of their short hair would fit well with the detailed process that I was keen to work with. I hadn't got my own reference imagery for this so opted to pull together some images from the internet to try and piece together a brand new, unique image. These were some of the images I used as reference and I have circled the aspects which built the framework of my drawing. The composition and pattern of the fabric was just from my head.
I can see that in relation to my practice as an illustrator, this work sits somewhat outside of this discipline. I do still like to draw for enjoyment and I think producing pieces of work like this for the purpose of being displayed in a gallery is a breath of fresh air from the much more in depth process of producing illustrations. For me, its good to have a focussed practice but also do a few different things outside of this.
Unfortunately because I am at home for summer I did not have access to a big enough scanner to document this piece of work well before I framed it for submission. After trips to various places around Loughborough, I couldn't find one that could scan my piece without the risk of damaging it. I had to photograph my work instead which was disappointing as the quality is clearly compromised.
This has been a good couple of days for me, I have been focussed and productive and I’m thinking that this is what I needed to get me into shape to be more productive and motivated for my college projects.
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