city

This is a drawing from a recent project we did in Vis Com – in groups we built cities out of scrap materials, then drew them. Our city became a series of islands, joined by bridges and cables and rope ladders.

This particular image was a blind drawing, which took a couple of minutes, so I wasn’t very careful about it. I used a 4B pencil and tried to make bold lines, focussing on just one small part of the city.

I felt this was a successful drawing because although it looked sprawling and unfinished, I quite liked these qualities and found they suited the subject. Something about it gave a sense of the unusual city I was drawings, its levels, walkways, uncertainties, strange shapes, juxtapositions and lack of logic.