The London Illustration Fair was simply incredible. I can't believe how much inspiration it gave me. One of my favourite illustrators was there (I didn't meet him, but I met a man with whom he is in a collective with) and got my hands on some rather awesome zines.
This is the work of Daniel Jamie Williams.
His sketchbooks are so dynamic and interesting, and his style is completely unique.
In some ways I can relate it to my current work. The way his whole thought process is displayed on each page is exactly how I've been working in my visual journal leading up to the finals. My finals are crammed with as much surreal information as I could squeeze onto one page, and I love working in that format at the moment. Daniel Jamie Williams also works in this way, and its evident that he uses his sketchbook religiously. On the back of one of the zines it says " A zine of a sketchbook that I brought in Berlin during the summer of 2014 and drew in obsessively."
He's an inspiration for the visual journal.
What I will take away from studying his work-
- Draw all of the time. Draw through my own struggles. Draw because I love to draw.
- Vary the formats in which I draw. Draw big, draw small. Cram the pages, spread them out. Write on some pages, leave others. Try everything.
- Take a sketchbook with me everywhere, you never know when the inspiration for the next brief is going to happen.
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