As you can tell from the post title I’m not sure what to call them but I basically produce pen illustrations, they aren’t of anything in particular, there is no planning or sketching its just drawn straight out. These drawings are produced over a period of time (when I get chance) and aren’t the product of one sitting.
The one pictured is A3 in size, black and white ink pen and drawn on cartridge paper. If there is any general theme is the use of flowing, organic lines some of them remind me of climbing plants, seeds, buds. I’ve often wondered what a psychologist would make of them, let me know if you happened to be one i’d like to know what some of this might possibly mean, if anything! I have included an overall image of the drawing and also several closeups (below) as it features quite alot of small detailed sections.
I have used some of these illustrations in some self initiated graphic design work Scribbles and Doodles and Fancy Things these make use of my initial drawings that are scanned, vectorised, slightly edited and refined, then coloured up in Adobe Illustrator.
I’d be interested in your views on these (positive or negative) as I’m considering producing a small number of limited edition screen prints that will be for sale on this site.
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It’s very impressive!
It probably says quite a lot about you psychologically, i’m not clever enough to know what though! lol
i think they’re lovely!
they make me think a little of aubrey beardsley, but more abstract…
Susan, yes I guess they do have abit of a Aubrey Beardsley feel to them, maybe its the use of black against white and of course the circles and curves. Its difficult to gauge whether this type of work is good/bad etc so feedback is always welcome, cheers Gareth
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Great work Gareth, I really like them!
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Inspirational stuff, I love it
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hey…nice work…strangely enough, i do the same kind of illustration, out of nowhere, just doodles and drawings with one color ink pen…
i would like to share with you a couple of them maybe sometime…but i was amazed to the close resemblance of ..
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cheers!!
Interesting that you produce work of this kind, I’d love to see some of it, do you have a website with it featured, if so let me know. Thanks again.
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Strange that Ahmad said he does the same stuf. I do this exact stuf with all black pen and sometimes i put red in for the contrast. I searched on Google to find some other “doodles”, and this is right up my alley. Good work Gareth, maybe we could exchange drawings sometime. Later!
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