I was on the phone to my Dad a couple of nights back, talking about my university work and the different projects I had on, and he was trying to explain what he felt about my style of drawing or sketching. He was explaining that he had never seen someone with a drawing style like mine and that the best way he could understand it was:
'Almost childlike but not in a bad way. More sophisticated'
Initially I was almost insulted by this evaluation but the more I considered it the more I agreed. I like messy, quick sketches that look like they've been achieved in under a minute. I like the page to be full of multiple concepts and ideas all different from one another. The more sophisticated aspects of my drawing style seem to emerge in the development stage when I am rendering, adding shade and colour and overall making the images much more crisp. Yet, I can't help but love ideation sketching as it's not expected to be perfect and is often spontaneous as you quickly scribble down and idea you have just come up with on the back of a napkin or scrap of paper. Therefore I can accept my 'messy but sophisticated' style.
Then I thought about sketching quick images of chairs and making my model look like it was a quick sketch. This reminded me of a company I had heard of that turn children's drawings into soft toys called Childs Own. I love this company because unlike all the other toys children must share with thousands of others around the world, this product is completely unique and bespoke to them as they drew the picture and therefore truly presents their style.
Then I thought about sketching quick images of chairs and making my model look like it was a quick sketch. This reminded me of a company I had heard of that turn children's drawings into soft toys called Childs Own. I love this company because unlike all the other toys children must share with thousands of others around the world, this product is completely unique and bespoke to them as they drew the picture and therefore truly presents their style.
In researching this company I came across an article called Kids' Drawings Made Into Real Furniture where they asked children between the ages of 7 and 8 to draw a chair. They have successfully recreated two of the drawings into real items of furniture and the child's style is perfectly emitted into the piece.
If these children's crude pictures could be made into functional furniture, who says the same can't be achieved with my initial sketches?