Fruit part 3

The third part of the fruit brief was to use the knowledge you've gained researching fruit to design your own brand new made up fruit. I decided to go with poisonous fruit using habitat as a starting point, I wanted to think about a fruit that could grow in or near polluted oceans.

I also looked at genetically modified fish and bioluminescense, plants and jellyfish and squid that glow underwater due to the bacteria in the water they eat, I was thinking about the way pollution in the water could effect the fruit.

I also looked at shells for inspiration for the shape of the fruit

 

I also looked at poisonous frogs, the way they they ward off predators with their bright colours.

Keeping on the poison theme i looked at sea urchins and anenomes, which are also bright and have really lovely structural forms. My final design is on the very left, a combination of the sea urchin spikes and bobtail squid spotted pattern.

Fruit part 2

Following on from fruit research was investigating fruit firsthand by sourcing fruit to draw. It was slim pickings in Tesco at first but i managed to get a good enough selection of stuff my favourites being the physalis which didnt taste that great and the humble orange which is good to draw and eat.

 

I drew these figs using watercolour pencils and a bit of ink, from the outside the fig isn't very spectacular but inside is complicated and fleshy and full of little seeds.

 

I really like drawing physalis, the sculptural shape is a lot more interesting than most fruit from the outside

 

 

This is a monoprint of a pomegranate quarter, i think it turned out really well but because it took so long to get all the detail in the ink started drying halfway through and i had to hurry it up a bit.

Fruit Part 1

So as part of creative concepts we got given a brief about fruit. Learn about fruit and investigate fruit as fully as possible, from the poisonous othalanga fruit to fruits mistaken for vegetables like olives, peppers and aubergine.