From a very early age I have always been drawn to illustrations in books, I felt that they communicated the story so much more than the words ever did to me. My favorite illustrator used to be Quentin Blake's drawings for Dahl's books. I found his drawings humorous but now that I am older I appreciate and understand why his drawing style reflected upon his characters, for example, The Twits were messy, unclean and thick. Much like the quality of lines that he produced to create the drawings of the characters go hand in hand! Still to this day now that I have read the books over and over again, I always look at the illustrations, brings back fond memories of primary school.
From the age of 9 I began to draw, alot, it was anything really, I found drawing people the hardest and even still to this day, even though when I draw certain features of a person in detail are much better than the person as a whole. I like drawing eyes and mouth but I avoid drawing hands like the plague and that is something that I need to work on! But at the age of 9 Pokemon was a massive phase, my brother and I collected all the magazines and cards for the game. But as I grew out of it I always used to love drawing the characters, because they were made up of shapes and this really helped out with my drawing skills and addition of colour to some drawings. From that point on I have always loved art and anything creative...
Throughout Secondary school, I was determined that I would be doing fine art as a GCSE, I did and continued to do something I enjoyed. However, although I was always improving my observational drawings and other art skills like clay work and collages. I continued into A Level and it came to the point where I had to choose whether I wanted to study Graphic Design or Fine Art. When I chose this course I knew it would allow me to experiment and get my hands messy like I did at college.
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