Week 3 : Wheels
My take on the subject of wheels. Completely hand-drawn (well, obviously apart from the head-shots). These are not original car drawings – I’m not that creative. What I am good at, however, is transposing already drawn things onto another piece of paper, without the aid of tracing boxes, tracing paper or grids to line up. The two cars here were chosen as likenesses to our current set of family cars – my silver Vauxhall Vectra, and the family old rust-heap, a blue Vauxhall Frontera.
I wanted a somewhat cartooney and upbeat graphical image on this one, and to deal mainly with black and white (with minor colours used) because the journaling itself (written simply around the pages) is actually not that upbeat. In my journaling I deal with the constraints that wheels nowadays have on me – the long commutes too and fro work, and even to the local supermarket in the weekends. And I discuss that feeling, as leaving in the morning, of not knowing if either my hubbie or I will make it back that night.
