Holiday Snapshot Sketches

Summer holiday in Rhodes, Greece 

Brought a great book, which I planned to finish, and then read another.

I did neither - instead I drew a lot:

Breakfast view

Pornstar Martini, Negroni. Waiting, drawing.

Rhodes Clocktower

Early morning,  sea like a lake, one lady flapping her hands against the water.

Captain's crest

Boat ride queue

Birthday Boy

Lindos Bay after a big dinner

Whitstable (Back in England!)

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Sketches: where IDEAS are born!

Revealing very first sketches (and the notes I made with them!) for the Big Draw poster commission - the first idea can be a winner, or can develop totally unexpectedly! 

1. Flamingo Drawing

Either people drawing flamingos, or the other way around!

2. Cupid

3. Drawing the World

People using art materials to create the world around them, world becoming more realistic in places, maybe a squirrel climbs through…

4. Pencils Don't Grow on Trees

5. Kids drawing

People drawing on the floor on lots of coloured paper, I could make a kind of pattern out of people and art materials. 

6. Pencil sharpener

6. Pencil sharpening

Ants either climbing or drawing on a roll of pencil sharpening that has been dropped outside – possibly grass shoots around. Coloured pencil flakes on ground. Could be quite graphic or earthy.

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However crudely done, I wanted to show how important sketching out ideas is when developing how you think about something! And that I love the 'first ideas' part !

Thank you - and thank you Big Draw!

My illustration portfolio:  http://obrotheridge.co.uk

My illustration portfolio:  http://obrotheridge.co.uk

East London Illustrated Map

One piece of paper, a knife, some ink.

As a London based illustrator, I created a map of East London for an editorial brief from Boat Magazine. My illustrated map shows my first six months in this amazing city. The pubs, markets ( Columbia Road Flower Market, Broadway Market, Ridley Road ) London Fields, Victoria Park, the canal, derelict buildings, new towers in the city - and the Rio Cinema, passed by a continuous stream of buses and whirring police sirens.

My illustration portfolio: http://obrotheridge.co.uk

A piece of Bournemouth

I'm not sure if it is possible to re-capture the shapes, textures (and smell! :s) of this barnacle covered muscle but I have tried my damnedest! 

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