Exercise - A subjective drawing

Finished Illustration

For this I have chosen my skagen watch as the item I'm going to use for the subjective drawing.

I have produced a small spider diagram so that I can come up with some words relating to the watch.  I will pick one word and make the mood board from my idea.

My mood board for this exercise was comprised of adverts for skagen watches, including the one I have, a black-and-white photograph of a steelworker, and the process of steelmaking.

I also included samples of the materials I wanted to use.

I have chosen the word ' shiny' from my list of words and I thought the best way to describe this word was to use collage.

I saw at John Lewis', some very striking silver wrapping paper, so this was to be the background for my collage, I also wanted a contract sting silver, so I picked silver foil as this has a smooth quality-a great contrast to the textured background.  Black and white paper would be used for other details in the piece.

I scanned the line image of my watch design, which was based on my model of watch, cut this out and stuck it on to the silver background.  I then added the silver foil, which was not easy, and the black paper.  I finished the image with some black pen detail and black lettering.

Overall I am pleased with the image, I haven't done much collage work, but I feel this went reasonably well and turned out okay.  The drawback of this exercise was the four-wheel was difficult to cut.

Skagen watches are based around steel, says this is the shiny surface I wanted to portray, with the materials are used, and I think I exaggerated this very well.