After deciding on the initial sketch (left) and wire drawing (right) I started to construct my final brooch. I decided to use the same structure and rough measurements for my brooch but I used my pliers more deliberately to make the bends in the wire more defined. I began making the brooch out of copper wire but once I had put the frame of the piece together, I decided against using copper as I liked the colour contrast between the dark wire and the blue thread in my wire drawing. I dipped the copper brooch in liver of sulphur solution to achieve the dark patina of my test piece and much preferred the result. I then added the blue thread to add to the structure of the piece and added a classic brooch clasp with a single bit of iron binding wire running along the back of the piece to clip into the catch at the opposite end.

I’m really pleased with the way my final piece has turned out. I’d like to see how I could take this brooch further, perhaps by making it much smaller or soldering it to create a smoother finish as, although I like the wire wrapping, it looks a little clumsy in some places.

After completing the continuous line drawings, I translated these into small sculptural wire drawings.

For some of my wire drawings, I only sculpted part of my original sketches because they worked better when they were split up into parts. The top left piece is part of my window drawing where I preferred the bricks on their own with the continuous line leading from one block to the next. Although this is not the wire drawing I continued with, I would like to use it in future as I love its flowing form contrasting with its rigid quality.

   This is the wire drawing I chose to develop further into a brooch.

Experimenting with different materials to depict an urban landscape in the form of continuous line drawings. I think my left handed drawings (right) were more successful than the ones done with my dominant hand (left) as the lines are far less harsh and geometric and I think that style works better with the free flowing look of continuos line drawings.