A Visual Journal: Theme and Motifs

Considering the theme of 'dystopia' I selected three motifs that play a role in Huxley's visions of the future. These were; a desire for 'products', the world falling into 'war' and the general 'decay of the urban environment'.

Using these motifs I collected a small amount of stock images from the internet to use as reference material for a drawing exercise.

The exercise involved the creation of different lines using varying styles and weights. I broke my stock images down into their most fundamental  aspects and used my newly created lines to draw them.

What I found was that some of the lines complimented the images well whilst others, though perhaps useful for other work, didn't fit what I was working on at the time. For example, the Mac Book drawn using using a fuzzy haphazard line didn't suit the image - but the line itself may come in useful should I need to, for example, draw a furry animal.