Claire Mull

Sketches+

Visual studies in product concepting, abstraction, observational drawing, and composition.

Product & concept sketching

A colored-pencil sheet of camping equipment drawn and hand-labeled: a sleeping mat that wraps into a box, a folding ground chair, tent, folding table, camp stove, pot and pan, water filter, head lamps and mats.
Beginner Camping KitColored pencil, pen
Beginner Camping KitColored pencil, pen

Abstraction & visual systems

A field of hundreds of continuous parallel ink lines flowing around points where the flow converges and pinches, the spacing modulating to give the sheet depth.
FieldPen
A water bottle seen from above and abstracted into hard-edged shapes in black, white and rust: a heavy diagonal band, a swept curve and a concentric ring.
NalgeneGraphite → Illustrator
A close-up of two buttons on a shirt, each circle built entirely from overlapping squares, one drawn in red and one in black.
ButtonsGraphite → Illustrator

Observational drawing & illustration

A night view down Post Alley: a lit sign spanning the alley, neon and chandelier light beyond it, brick buildings framing both sides and a broad cobblestone foreground.
Post AlleyColored pencil
A Canada goose standing on one leg with its bill tucked into its wing, against a mottled teal ground.
GooseColored pencil
A sheet of hand studies: the same hand drawn repeatedly from different angles, overlapping and filling the sheet edge to edge.
HandsGraphite
A dense study of mixed produce, a pear, an orange, a squash and a banana, built entirely from directional hatching, the forms overlapping and casting hatched shadows.
ProduceGraphite
A house drawn in colored pencil, cut out and mounted on a collaged ground of torn painted film, impasto foliage and fiber.
Childhood HomeMixed media
Six filled doughnuts in an open bakery box, each dusted with sugar and topped differently.
The Flour BoxColored pencil
A yellow daisy seen from behind and below, its petals splayed, against a flat magenta ground.
DaisyColored pencil

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