Visual Forms: Sketch book.

My ongoing project is my visual studies sketch book which is due in May. To a re-cap I have to study either; processions, market places or ruined civilisation. In previous blog posts I mentioned that the most interesting topic seemed to be ruined civilisations, but it is a visual study - it has to be first hand, making it quite tricky.

Originally I wanted my work to be game based, as the project game about around the time of the release of Fallout 4 it seemed obvious that was going to be my main inspiration, but - it can't, as it is not visually first hand.

My plan has now evolved in to looking at war time technology,  being as we have advanced an awful lot since then due to how much we rely on it now. (Maybe we're the ruined civilisation- joke).

My study will begin with second hand observation, probably off the internet just to do some sketches and perhaps have a read up from some books on typewriters and code machines. My main part of the project will be visiting war museums however being located in Cardiff it is very difficult to get anything war time related at all. My best bet is my visiting home: Manchester.

Here are a few places I plan to visit for my studies, probably over a break or when I can on a free weekend:
I am planning to go to visit a war time museum in Manchester http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-north as well as
http://www.carewcheritoncontroltower.co.uk/
http://www.watchetmuseum.co.uk/maritime/
being as there are no museums or history of ww1/2 in the museum in wales

I have an internal conflict too, as much as the game interests me, war and pretty much everything to do with it in real life is uninteresting to me. But that is bring my personal beliefs into the matter, so we'll not go there.

Another thought; I could scrap the war idea altogether and just use what I have on my doorstep, it is very much a history based topic after all and there is a beautiful museum here in Cardiff.
Although ruined civilisation seems the most interesting, it is also the one that requires the most travel/work; for processions I could use the traffic outside my window, or my footage of the carnival from my home town I got over summer. For market places, there is a very decent market place here in Cardiff and another close by in Newport, however this topic I am not interested in as I find it boring and restrictive (probably because I can see literally no excitement or variation in it - at all)
I would really like to study something that I am interested in, and am able to accomplish (and not be financially strangled).


My previous blog posts:
Oct 8th 2015
Nov 1st 2015
Dec 15th 2015