When doing some artist research, I came across an artist named Emily Garfield. I love her style of drawing, and it really inspired me to experiment in a similar style.
Her main pieces of work are illustrated maps, I love the simplicity of her pieces, she uses very minimal colours and lines, but I love how each piece is so delicate and unique.
In this piece, I decided to draw inside of the silhouette to represent the thoughts in someone's mind, and how each person's mind is complicated and unique. I chose to use vibrant colours to reflect the complication of our thoughts and imagination. And even though Emily Garfield kept to very basic colours, I found that the vibrant colours in this piece really represents a person's mind. I also feel like this is represented with the use of various shapes within the silhouette.
In this piece, I created a very basic map illustration of Home (in Epsom, Surrey). Using a map of the centre of Epsom, I drew the basic outlines of roads, rivers and parks, and also included little illustrations of things found within the town (for example- church, trees/wildlife, lakes). I like this little illustration, as it represents home to me, and I also decided to write in nearby towns, which I have also grown up around. I took inspiration from Emily Garfield's pieces by using her simplistic lines and shapes, but again, I added colour just as an experiment, and to make it my own. 