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I decided I really liked this style of painting so created a similar image but used a soldier instead. For my final piece I'll use something like this.

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The thought process behind this piece using chalk was a more in depth idea if I were to look at families who are effected in war. The innocence of a child vs the chaotic destruction of war. I purposely did the lines very chaotic and scattered to emphasise on the innocence of the child and how confusing war can be to someone so young who doesn't fully understand the reasoning or the extent.

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Simple text is just as powerful as an image can be.

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Not completely finished but I draw the base of it and then cut out brown paper to fill in the blocks, very simple image but speaks wonders.

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Excuse the running paint that ran across the drawing !!!
I drew a grenade in biro and splattered a dark red around it (originally it was fine I didn't go on the image but someone just had to look through my book and red paint... I mean blood dripped across)

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Another automatic drawing in sharpie similar to an image id seen on the Internet of soldiers running through the desert. I drew up the men and later added some ships into the background with watercolour hoping to give the effect they're running through water.

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On this page I still wanted to experiment with different materials so I used wire to create my own barb wire and used hot glue and some material and paint to create other outcomes. I did this for experimentation for my final piece. How I would make it more gritty.
Ps. I used gloves and goggles when twisting the wire, didn't consume any paint and didn't harm anyone with a hot glue gun.

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First I'll start with the only colourful photo I did throughout this piece. I decided that for one image id not do a soldier, I'd do the man above it all. Who doesn't get his hands dirty but sends out the orders. I did it in colour to make him stand out against all the dark and dirty soldiers is drawn. I chose such vibrant colours again to make him stand out but to really give him that unrealistic effect, no he doesn't have pinky skin like a normal person, he's completely unrealistic like his ideas. How I decided on the style was actually just something that happened I wasn't sure what I wanted to do so I got some paint and just cracked on so to speak. I really like the sections of colour to build up his face so I also drew a soldier in this style which will be painted in complete opposite colours

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I used my headshot photos of Connor and edited them on photoshop. I made both black and white wanting the red to stand out more. I dripped red paint over the images to signify blood. It's signifying the impending death on himself and others during war. I also used a sharpie to draw over his features to really make it stand out how young her really is. To emphasise his immaturity and age.

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I really liked the contrast on this page, how on one side is a young soldier with not a care in the world, with no idea what is going to happen and on the other is a soldier, older, wiser, in the middle of battle, either screaming orders or maybe even in pain. The complete opposite to the child next to him. I didn't want his face to be extremely realistic, I wanted it to stand out next to the photograph so I did it very blended but blocky colours, yes skin tones but a lot of variations to make it stand out.

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I read about how angrily Jackson pollock would be and how that emphasised his paintings so I tried to do that in this piece here. I angrily slashed black paint onto the page giving it different depths and textures and then did a few simple splatters of red paint that I hoped would look like blood splatter across the battle field so to speak.
The other image is my first experimentation printing using the letter blocks, I used red ink and used brown paper that I then ripped so it sort of looked like a country and placed it in the middle of the page.

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Shots of soldiers again, I wanted a variety, not just young men. So here is a young girl and man of age to fight. Having this sort of variety shows that war doesn't stop for just anyone, everyone is involved no matter your age or gender.

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I found images on the Internet from different wars and ripped them up to fit in one image of a soldiers face. I wanted to show the different parts of war,

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A soldier in war, rough smudge paint work.

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I used people I found in my building to take photos of in a soldiers jacket, I did this originally just to give me something to experiment with but when looking at the photos I started to think about 'child soldiers'. The contrast of the army uniform against such young fresh faces really inspired me to carry on my work with that.

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As you'll see (bar one picture) I kept the whole colour theme throughout my sketchbook very muted. I stuck to reds and blacks and the odd brown to really emphasise on the deadliness of war and that there really is no bright side to it. Because my subject is visual communication, all my work is varied in the materials I use. Sometimes I smudge black chalk across a page to give it a ruined vibe sometimes I only used paint sometimes I only used words.

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Here I sewed across some photos I found and later took, this is because I read about mutilation of the body and the horrific scarring from war wounds and I wanted to emphasise that this is what people out there go through for you and the sewing was also kind of a shout to the doctors who are told to just patch them up and off they go again back into the fire.

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Andddd this is where my ideas do a complete 360. What was green and pale and pretty is now dark and dangerous. To kick my new idea off I started by doing a little abstract work. I splashed colour, I cut up my work, I used what colours I associate with war. On the second image I tried to imbed an image of a face, can you see it?

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Using paints and pen I created a couple images based on flowers and overgrowth. It was originally experimentation on what I could later put over a city photo, but turned into there own pieces.

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After experimentation with this over growth idea I started to think about the reasons of why a world would get like that.  Obviously it has a lot to do with destruction and what bigger cause than war itself. I did a brainstorming sheet with thoughts on some outcomes if I further researched into war. There was a variety of outcomes I could of come to, I thought about the people it effects not just civilians but soldiers as well, I thought about families, children what the long term and short effects were. I discussed a lot of this with people in my group and decided I wanted to put my focus mainly on the soldiers themselves

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I was just completely uninterested with the interior design. So I thought I'd spice things up a bit. It all started after watching a film which was roughly based on a post apocalyptic future. I brainstormed a bunch of ideas based around the look of a city that has been taken over by nature. And the apocalypse idea ventured from there to war.

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My work started off going a long the lines of interior design. That swiftly changed and I moved to war. Just a slight change.