For both my sets of drawings, I knew I wanted to experiment with the markers I bought a few days before the assignment was given. As someone who habitually turns to digital art, choosing to hand-draw and use markers for this assignment was a bit of a challenge. However, throughout the assignment, I have become more comfortable with sketching and using markers in my work. I am still trying to learn how to add more depth and to use strictly markers (so, no use of thin markers for tracing), but I know I will eventually figure it out, based on the amount of times I have found myself gravitating towards my markers.
For my first set, I wanted to explore drawing animals, as I have no experience in it whatsoever. I struggle with drawing the human form, something I learned during my Drawing and Imaging class last semester, so I wanted to challenge myself by drawing animals, specifically dogs. Though I (unfortunately) do not have a dog of my own, I am a huge dog lover. So, for this set, I wanted to give myself an excuse to interact with the dogs I see in the city. Throughout the week, I noticed my sketches improving the more I became comfortable with the markers. I think this can be seen in the last three drawings I did, where I solely used markers in order to add detail and depth and did not trace anything in black marker. Overall, the theme I chose for this set may seem random, but I personally enjoyed getting to meet the dogs and drawing them.
For my second set, I wanted to focus on another thing I love: typography. Since I was little, fonts have always interested me. I love how the appearance of a word makes an impact on its overall message. I also enjoy its variation, from serifs, sans serif, decorative, and script. As I found leisure in graphic design, my love for typography grew. However, as much as I love digital typography, I also happen to love it in its handwritten form. As someone who has always been complimented on their handwriting, I always find myself exploring different ways to hand-write certain things. For my notes, I tend to do a script heading with a sans serif body. For letters, I always settle for my script handwriting. With that being said, for this set of drawings, I wanted to explore more of my love for typography by focusing my set on phrases or words that stuck with me at the end of each day. This allowed me to rack my brain and replay what happened on a particular that stood out to me the most. With this, I then got to choose how that particular word or phrase made me feel, which I then reflected through the way I wrote it.
