Rachel Lillie illustration workshop
Our class took a second trip to Poole Museum to attend a workshop with an illustrator, Rachel Lillie; who takes inspiration from her surroundings and story telling of real life events. The workshop itself was very enjoyable but also very challenging as illustration work like hers isn't my strongest point.
As soon as we got there, she talked us through her work and gave us a lot of information on her style of working. We then took a look around the lines of thought gallery and at some of the work that inspired her. She explained why and how they completed that piece of work as well as telling us to remember the work as we were aiming to draw in a similar way to them and Rachel herself.
After this was done, we were set four 15 minute drawing tasks taking inspiration around us aswell as story telling; just like Rachel herself and the artists that inspire her. The way we had to draw so quickly was challenging but quite inspiring as i'm not use to drawing that quickly.
My favourite part of this session was the story telling part, where we created a story from the observational drawings we completed. It was a fun task as you could think of something as bizarre and strange as you wanted. The more strange it was, the better it was! It was a really different way of working for me as I don't tend to draw scenes or create stories, so it was nice being to engage with Rachel's style of working and try out a different approach.
The day was very enjoyable and inspiring as it has enabled me to bring new ideas into my fashion illustration work.
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