Drawing Pens and Sketch Book Stationary

Rotring Pens Line Width Drawings

Molekine Drawing Sketch Pads

Water Colour Pencil Stationary Set

Compass Set

Jitesh Patel illustration Stationary Collection Grid

Field Note Sketch Book

Laser Cut Detailed Cover Sketch Book from India

Drawing Pens and Sketch Book Stationary, I confess I like to collect a wide range of stationary. I also use a lot of what I purchase and find in my illustration work as well. The stationary I use to maximum value, are my Rotring Pens. These are traditional draftsmen fine liner pens which are made by a German Brand, Rotring. These particular pens have a fine metal nib, which range from ultra fine nibs to a thick nib. The thinest nibbed Rotring pen I own is 0.28mm and the largest is 1mm think. I have owned these particular pens since i was 16 years old back in 1994, when I was enrolled in a Graphic design course at Newham School of Further education. My design Tutor Francess Bloomfield was explicit we learn how to draw and learn traditional skills. This was the era when Apple Macs and desktop publishing would usher in a new era of Design.

Further photos showcase more stationary material such inks, pencils, pens, sketch books, paint brushes, and Promarkers. I use much of these drawing materials in my work. I draw and create everything I need to on to paper to a near finished state. Once all my hand drawn assets are created, its all scanned into photoshop at 400 dpi. I work at at a higher res, which allows me to scale up just in case the client requires me to, its all ways a good idea to have your bases covered. Once all my illustrated assets are scanned, I compose and finish the illustration for a client within Photoshop.

Detailed Hand Drawn and Digital Fast Food Drawings

Detailed Hand Drawn and Digital Vegetable Drawings

Detailed Hand Drawn and Digital Fruit Drawings

Here are a selection of food drawings I have been working on, The drawings are of your everyday food items which include, Fruit and vegetable drawings as well as fast food drawings. This is a on going series of drawings of everyday objects that I have taken a keen interest in illustrating. I have tried to capture the identifying features of the items mostly by the pen lines. I vary the pen lines which may consist of continuous line or broken lines which can fill large and small areas with the drawings.

My early drawings which consisted of mostly outline drawings, have gone under some development, I figured the drawings needed some more depth to them, with that in mind, I have played about with adding subtle details to the drawings, in terms of lines, different line styles and weights. I have begun to introduce limited colour to the illustrated drawings.

My work consists of black and white lines with very limited colour. The everyday drawing series, It was important to investigate how colour could be used with the black and while line drawings. The colour developed into an almost solid colour, with a hint of colour shading> it was important to overall retain the drawn illustrated pen look and feel, without the illustrations looking to digital, which is a conscious decision for me,

Northern Ireland Map drawing

Brussels Airline Inflight Magazine Northern Island Map drawing

Northern Ireland Map drawing for Brussels Airlines Inflight Magazine . Ink Global create award-winning media and content for passengers at every stage of their journey. Ink currently produce over 25 magazines in eight languages for many of the world’s well known airlines and travel companies including: United, American Airlines, Iberia, airberlin, Norwegian and Scoot. In addition, Ink sells digital media space for KLM, easyJet, Aer Lingus, Cebu Pacific and many more.

I was commissioned to illustrate a map covering Northern Ireland which would be published for Brussels airline, inflight magazine. The illustrated map would show the sights and tourist interests such as Belfast the Titanic Centre, Bushmills Distillery, The Giant’s Causeway, Carrick a Rede rope bridge, Giant’s Causeway, Portrush, Portstewart and Dunluce Castle.

The Northern Ireland map was an interesting map to work on for me. The illustrated map I have worked on in the past, I would draw the place on interest on to the map, this works well if their is space for the locations to work within the composition of the illustration. The design problem I encountered with the Northern Ireland map was with the difficulty of placing the locations with in the magazine dimensions. The solution for this problem was to crop the location drawings and place them within floating image shapes. This approach worked with the available space and composition with out compromising the map.

Agency Sectorlight London Map

London Design Agency Sectorlight London Map Drawing

Agency Sectorlight London Map Drawing, the brief given by designer Emily Knight from Sector Light was to illustrate a map of London, with selected key landmarks, that included, London Bridge, St Pauls, the Shard, The London Eye and the OXO Tower. These Land Marks would further enhance the London map drawing.

The London Map drawing would be printed on to canvas material which would then be and for the development companies selling show room based in Bermondsey.

To illustrated the map, I researched street maps of London, I then started to draw the roads of London, in a hand drawn sketchy line, the initial brief outlined that the lines did not had to be very perfect, in fact the less perfect the better. Once the drawing was drawn, I used photoshop to edit the map, however in this case, the drawing did not need much work, since I wanted to retain the sketchy look and feel,

The land marks were then placed on the London Map. The London Map was  a differnt style of drawing then I would usually illustrate, however for this brief the map worked in this slightly sketch style. I think I might try and retain some this simplicity going forward in my map illustrations,

Moleskine European City Map Drawings

Moleskine European City London Date Drawing

Moleskine European City London Date Drawing

Moleskine European City London Date Drawing

Moleskine European City Berlin Drawing

Moleskine European City Helo Copenhagen Drawing

Moleskine European City Copenhagen Drawing

Moleskine European City Copenhagen Drawing

Moleskine European City Dublin Drawing

The rationale behind the maps, read on or enjoy the short clip 🙂 I guess Id like to explain the maps which started off initially as maps of dates I would go on with a girl I was seeing at the time, the dates were fun and I wanted to capture the moments as a little memories of time as drawings in my moleskin sketch book.

The maps continued to develop into a illustrative style. I was pretty much in a transitional period, creatively and as a person. Luckily my illustration agent noticed my drawings, Thanks Ben, and liked them, and encouraged me to create more map work and drawings.

I hadn’t seriously been drawing for a very long time, and its only been 3 years since I took it up more seriously, mostly out of frustration of being sat at a computer being a vector artist, which was stifling. I was waiting for something to magically happen, I was waiting for those clients to notice and commission my work, It doesn’t work like that, I was stuck with my old vector illustration style. with few commissions coming through the door, I took control and decided to take a risk and make drastic changes.

I’m pretty lucky to kick off a new illustration style from scratch it was a risk, I guess you have to take control of things, experimenting with ideas, the maps and illustrations have been going well, recently I thought it would be fun to combine drawing and traveling into a personal project, where I can take short day trips to European cities and capture them as map drawings, while having a bit of fun at the same time.

Change is good sometimes, you have to change it up to develop and try things, if you don’t try and give things a go, you wont know where it might take you. Im also trying out being more straight talking, some of you who know me well, know id never give away so much info as I have above, if your still here, thanks for reading.

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San Miguel 125th Anniversary Chalice Glass

The Marketing Store agency based in Central London, invited me a illustrate a limited edition, illustrated Chalice glass for San Miguel beer brand, to celebrate 125 years of the brand and draw attention to it’s rich and well travelled past. The Chalice will be available for consumers in bars all over London. Consumers spotted drinking from the Chalice will have the chance to win a selection of experience based prizes to create additional interest around the promotion. The launch of the Chalice will be supported with a digital media campaign with the Chalice as the hero. This will also act in informing consumers about the Prize promotion.

The brief was to produce a beautiful, illustrative, part chronologic, part geographic timeline taking consumers on a visual journey around their Chalice Highlighting key dates, places, events, quotes, inspirations and influences absorbed by San Miguel along its 125 year journey to present day.

The design has to be vibrant and bold bringing the story to life in flashes of colour evoking the adventurous spirit of the brand. Yet containing clusters of detail that could well be overlooked in a dimly lit busy bar at first glance. Allowing consumers to discover fragments of San Miguel’s influences for themselves at their own leisure. Areas of the design should reflect there geographic and or periodic roots (China, South Pacific 1950s) but still feel overtly Spanish, inline with the brands heritage.

San Miguel Chalice Map Illustration Wrap Around

San Miguel Chalice Map Illustration

San_Miguel_Chalice_visual_4 Jitesh Patel Illustration

San Miguel 125th Anniversary Chalice Glass Digital Advertising Bond Street Tube Station London

Chrysanthemum Floral Detailed drawing

Chrysanthemum Floral Detailed drawing

Chrysanthemum Floral Detailed drawing, looking through my work portfolio, its noticeable I have many architectural and map drawings and few organic forms, such as floral drawings. My vector work had always had a natural organic form to it, and it was natural to work in that way. Since developing the hand drawn maps and architecture, I am missing that organic natural forms, and its a conscious decision to try and bring the organic form back into my work which would bring a balance to the hand draw maps and architecture drawings.

I guess drawing has always been natural to me, and its only now that I am drawing again, after a long period as working as a vector artist. I enjoy drawing more then working purely as a vector artist. I guess it allows me to experiment much more with different techniques, and I find it pleasurable to draw in my spare time and sketch, while at home or out and about which was something I did not do enough of as a vector artist, to quickly sketch an idea or thought, or a location capturing a scene of everyday life.

I have discovered working with different mediums, such as screen printing, paints and inks, have bought a interesting and different level of richness to my illustration work, which I was not able to achieve while I was working as a vector artist, something which I try and work at on a daily bases.

Quick Sketch Book Drawings, Lets Go to the Movies

Going to the Movies sketch book drawings

Triangles Sketch Book Line Drawings

A couple of quick sketch book drawings, drawn while sat in a coffee shop working on personal projects which happen in between commercial projects. Personal projects are important development stage of illustration, since you always want to be seen as being fresh and creative. Its an important way of developing the work you do, of finding new methods to the way you work, while pushing your own boundaries. I try and jot down 10 ideas and thoughts a day, they might be illustration and design related or not, the concept is to be a idea machine, to be creatively thinking and generating ideas and concepts, and its a good skill to develop.

The sketch book drawings where ideas I had been thinking of, its a good idea to take the had written ideas, and to draw them into quick sketches, to see if they work visually or not, I try not to spend to much time on them, however since my work is detailed and intricate, I sometimes find, I do, and its a conscious decision to keep working on it or to walk away and leave it as it is, and move on to the next thing.

Going to the movies, inspired by going to the movies… and the comfort food which we eat while watching a movie, taking my thoughts and visualising them as a sketch. Geometric line drawings was born out of not drawing for a couple of days, sometimes you just need to put the pen to paper and see what happens, it does not have to be a master piece, you simply have to keep drawing.

Breaking Bad Map drawing

Breaking Bad the incredible and very successful TV programme has been off the air for over a year now. Here in the UK, you could only watch it on Netflix, the online streaming Platform. It was a hugely popular TV programme which I was a fan off, and it swanned many fan posters and drawings, which you can find on the internet. As you can see from above, I have now added to the fan drawings, although I conceptualised taking a different approach, of the usual portrait style, which can normally be found, as a Breaking Bad Map illustration.

It was a easy decision to create a breaking bad map, that showed the key locations of places frequently used in Breaking bad, as well as the important cars which were driven. that also characterised the personalities of the people of the breaking Bad TV programme. Using breaking bad Wiki it was a simple process to collect the information for the locations, as well as the type of cars which were driven in the programme. Walter Whites home residence interestingly is a fictional place, and does not exist in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walter White BB address is 38 Negra Arroyd Lane, and the real life address is 3828 Piermont Dr NE Albuquerque, NM

The process involved, researching the individual locations and drawing them. Once all the key information was drawn, all the elements were digitally composed in photoshop, composing all of key location titles in bold hand drawn lettering, and the details of the cars and location address, in a loose hand drawn map.

Typographic Annotation Heart

Typographic Drawn Heart Illustration

Its Valentines day soon, this is my alternative valentines day illustration. Look after your typographic annotation illustration, inspired by keeping your heart healthy with a few simple simple steps in the change of your lifestyle. I signed up for the British Heart Foundation London to Brighton cycle ride this year. I enjoy cycling, and I have always thought about taking part, and much of that is being organised and signing up early. I guess this is a Valentines day alternative illustration and a keep your heart fit and healthy double illo.

I made a quick search about advice on how to keep your heart healthy some of which is common knowledge, these include, Get active, Dont Smoke, Watch your weight, Less Stress, Eat Oily Fish Sleep More, Eat Healthy Ditch the Salt and Get your 5 a Day. I drew stylised hand drawn typography for each of the headings around the main drawing of the heart. Once all the headings and the spot illustrations for them were drawn in, I wrote the accompanying annotations for the spot illustrations and headings, some of which are serious thoughts on keeping your heart healthy, and I combined them with a humour.

The concept of the illustration was to create a dense typographic annotated illustration with a varied mix of hand drawn illustrated drawings as well as combining the drawings with a mix of different typographic styles, injects with a a serious but humours message.