Kate Sutton sketchbook

This is the sketchbook that goes with the two images above. For this sketchbook, I used an old book and covered the pages with other paper and materials for the background to work onto this. In these particular pages, I wanted to create a page that related to the final outcome above. When I was researching into her work, I came across a piece involving a camera and thought this would be a perfect relation to the piece as I used photography a lot.

After deciding that I was using this image, I then had to draw it up, using white paper. After I had cut it out, I decided it needed a bright, bold background in contrast to the camera. I found some paper containing lots of coloured hexagons and thought this would be a good background to work on and I think the end product looks good, as the contrast is so strong.

Everyday objects drawing

Throughout my everyday objects project, I had done lots of study sheets involving illustrations but I had never done an actual sketch of everyday objects. Once deciding to do so, I chose my shoe, my iPod and my key. I found it easy drawing the outlines of the objects but it took me a while to get into the shading and tones of the sketch. Once finding where the light and shadows fell, I then had to add it to the paper, which I found tricky at first. Once I got going however, I found it easier to spot the darker tones from the lighter and didn’t just shaded, added a crosshatch look to it, and lots of little lines to give it a greater effect.

Even though it wasn’t what I was used to, I really enjoyed doing the sketch as it was something different and I enjoyed finding where the shadows and light fell and applying it to the paper. 

Children's Illustrators

As I had done the piece of my own illustrations, I wanted to look into some Illustrators. When looking at illustrations, i found that I liked Children's illustrations as they contained lots of colour and are much more happy and playful looking. I then went onto looking at children's Illustrators. 


I produced this study sheet on children's Illustrators. A favourite of mine was Alexander Ball. I really like his work because they are mostly of animals and even though they are simple, the colours work well together which makes them look sophisticated. 


I enjoyed doing this study sheet because like the illustration collage, I used a handwriting pen again so it would give a more detailed look. With using a handwriting pen, it's easy to do individual lines and little details which goes well in a collage like this. 

Illustration collage

This was one of my favourite pieces to work on. I drew it all with a Berol handwriting pen and i think it looks effective as an end product. This was part of the Everyday Objects project I did. I had a lot of ideas of drawings that I wanted to include in the project so I thought it would be good to add it all in one piece as a collage. 


I think using the black handwriting pen against the yellow background looks effective and having a lot of things going on makes it more interesting as every time you look at it, you see another object. 

Tim Burton playing cards

This was a project that I completed as part of my exam last year. It was based on games, any type of games and anything that goes with it. I thought and researched into games and came up with an idea of Alice in Wonderland as playing cards are involved a lot in the film, which can be used as a game. 


This was the final outcome of the project. I used Illustrator to draw out Tim Burton's sketches of the characters in the recent film. I then created the whole deck of cards in the style of Tim Burton. 


I loved doing this final outcome, as I admire Tim Burton's style of working so I found it lots of fun creating a game in the style of his work. Even though it took quite a while designing the full deck of cards, it was worth it in the end. 

Art movements through history

This is the current project that I am working on, it's about the different art movements through history to now. As part of the project, we have to look at the significant moments in art and research into them. I did this and created a timeline on a study sheet to show the movement through time. I started off with Caveman, to Egyptian, to Renaissance. I am still working on these study sheets so I will now carry on with going through the other movements in history. 


To make the study sheet look attracting, I drew out the letters and added lots of lines in the letters to make it stand out. I then added circles and added a pattern around the edge to add some colour and patterns into the sheet. 

Children's book, front cover

As a follow on from the Art History prep sheet, we then had to go on and complete a final outcome. For this, we created a children's book based on art history. I wanted my target audience to be attracted to my book so to make sure of this, I produced a questionnaire for the children to answer so I could see what they wanted. With the answers I got back, I could then create the cover. 


The character on the cover is one I created to show throughout all my artwork. He's called Rodger and I created him so he could be a regular theme throughout. 


I enjoyed creating this children's book as like the A1 piece, I used Illustrator to create it all, which is something I like using as it gives it a crisp, finished look.