What is a line?...

Lucinda Rogers

I really like Lucinda's style and visual interpretation of cityscapes, her style is very loose. She sketches the city roughly and then adds watercolour to bring it alive. I think the way in which she highlights particular parts with the stroke and dashes of colour, gives her a unique style, her work portrays the hustle and bustle of a city through soft colours and simple lines, she shows it in its opposite by what media she uses.

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Andrew Prokos

Prokos is a cityscape photographer, a lot of his work is of the New York skyline and cityscape, his style is something that i am aiming for, to then simplify through tracing. I want to take pictures of various cityscapes/ skylines then take them down to their simplist form, so you can tell its a big city (for example) by the shapes interupting the skyline, but u will not be able to see the big picture.

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Jessie Douglas

Jessie Douglas takes parts of a cityscape/ landscape and isolates it, she then uses a vector illustrating to create these simple sections of a much bigger picture. I like her simple style and how she picks a busy section, but when taken out of context and placed on a block background she makes it look a lot simpler.

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Flickr

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Reza Abedini

Poster for solo exhibition, 2006

This poster design is from a book i own called 'New poster Art', the style of this poster is the direction in which i am going to take my work, the designer has taken the human form but stripped it down to its simplest form of just an outline, giving an odd looking shape. These are then overlayed to create an entanglement of lines, its a really nice technique, it keeps it simple and interesting to look at.

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Michael Gericke

'Building the Empire State', The Skyscraper Museum, exhibition poster, 1998

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Tyson Roberts

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http://darkdarling38.blogspot.com/

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Stephen Wiltshire

http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/

Stephen Wiltshire's work is amazing. His only tool is a pencil, and he creates these brilliant large scale pencil drawings of big cities. There is an example above where you can see the huge scale he works too, which is all hand drawn, it's a panoramic view of London and The River Thames. I really like his sketchy, but accurate style, its more detailed than what i am wanting to do, but it shows me another way of interpreting the city.

Sequence through space...

I have looked into some examples of sequence through space, the first one that came to mind was the channel 4 ident adverts..

Channel 4 ident adverts

It's really clever how they create these moving image sequences, the seperate sections of the number 4 are set at different plains and the image slowly moves round, as it gets to the centre the '4' appears, it then carries on to show the seperate parts from the opposite angle. This technique has been used in a variety of different settings.

A stage set is another example of how a sequence through space is made of layers. Each scene or section of the stage has it's own plain, these can be moved according to the story scene of a theatre show. The layers help to make the stage look more realistic and 3D, rather than just having a background that constantly changes. It makes you feel more involved.

Pop up's

Pop up cards and books are well known, fun examples of Sequences through space. Each section of the pop up is set on a plain, once the card or page has been opened it forces the plains to pull together and form the 3D pop up. Books and cards made in this way are exciting and more engaging.

What a load of sequence...