Week Ten : The Design Process \ Develop

This week I experimented with combining fineline & pencil sketching with digital drawing | learned how to attach a sleeve to the body of a shirt, and how to set up lighting in the photography studio | found inspiration in the places around me


Experiments with paint, paper and light


These are just a few of the experiments I’ve been doing with textures and different materials. I’ve achieved a wide variety of results using very simple techniques and especially like the chance discovery that holding work to the light or photographing while wet can bring an unexpected extra dimension. I now have a library of different backgrounds and fill textures to bring to my digital illustration.


Illustration development

Digital drawing

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I’ve continued experiments with scanning pencil, fineliner and watercolour illustration and then working over it with the digital paintbrush tool, adding layers and trialling different colour palettes. I’ve also researched different framing and composition approaches that will inform next stage in this illustration project. 


Design practice

Bespoke diary

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An interim project/prototype working towards the calendar  ― I began by gathering examples of diaries I’ve used and liked in the past, and brainstorming what a diary is most useful for. The format is A5 folded to A6 and hand-stitched. I like the clean design and the way dotted pages allow for writing both portrait and landscape, for different types of information; good for doodling too. I am now struggling to reconcile the illustration and design strands of my work in progress and feel the project may need to evolve. I feel photographs will sit better with the calendar concept.




Now Gallery | Ribbons by Matty Bovan

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Riot of ribbons, site-specific, immersive. I like the colour combinations. Favourite part the ribbon spools?! And I liked the lettering ― the combination of fleuro colours. Plays to my interest in craft/art and the skills passed generation to generation. ‘My grandma taught me to knit at age 11, and I have never looked back. Passing down skill and exciting people about craft is a central focus of my work’ (Matty Bovan, exhibition notes)


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