SKETCHBOOK WORK

The main cornerstone of my practice; travelling and sketching, putting down ideas as they come to me, and studying forms of art that interest me. It often works like a visual journal.

PERSONAL SKETCHBOOKS

‘Victoria Crowned Pigeon, London Zoo’.
Watercolour, 2024.

‘Fort Gwalior’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘Lemon Still Life’.
Watercolour, 2023.

‘Chateau du Chenonceau’.
Watercolour, 2022.

‘Boat Sketches’.
Watercolour, 2024.

‘St. Michaels Mount (from Newlyn)’.
Watercolour, 2023.

‘Samarkand’.
Gouache, 2022.

‘Crossing the Empty Quarter (from Wilfred Thesiger’s photos)’.
Pencil and Watercolour, 2022.

‘Becalmed in the marshes (from Wilfred Thesiger’s photos)’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘Kurdish Horseman (from Wilfred Thesiger’s photos)’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘Vienna Street View, Karlskirche’.
Pencil and watercolour, 2024.

‘Column inside Stephansdom’.
Pencil, 2024.

‘Gare du Nord, Paris’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘Windmills in Zaanse Schans’.
Charcoal, 2023.

‘Leipzig Sketches’.
Pencil and watercolour, 2023.

‘Whitehall Gardens from Southbank’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘View from Greenbank, Falmouth ’.
Watercolour, 2023.

‘Native American Headress, Chicago’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘Chrysler Building’.
Pencil, 2022.

‘Imagined Life Drawing’.
Pen, 2023.

PROJECT-DRIVEN SKETCHBOOKS

Some examples of the workings out that go into bigger, outcome-driven projects (e.g., a graphic novel). I sometimes end up preferring them to the finals.

‘Arabian Nights Environment Design’.
Pen and Ink, 2025.

‘Arabian Nights Character Design 1’.
Pen and Ink, 2025.

‘Arabian Nights Character Design 2’.
Pen and Ink, 2025.

SCI-FI ARABIAN NIGHTS PROJECTS (2025).

Sketchbook pages from my most recent project, a Sci-Fi adaptation of the Arabian Nights (the finals are up on the ‘Sequential Work’ page).

ENDELLION SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PROJECT (2025).

Work from the Endellion Shakespeare festival, for which I made several finals (found on the ‘Prints’ page) which will be exhibited this summer.

The opposite pages explores the look of Titania and Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, incorporating the forms of insects and animals into their design. Below are pages of compositional refinement, dress studies and poses for Demetrious and Lysander.

NATIVE AMERICAN GRAPHIC NOVEL PROJECT (2024).

A page of character designs (the finals are up on the ‘Sequential Work’ page). Adapting the existing artistic traditions of the Kwakwaka’wakw tribes to my style, along with other relevant inspirations I could find.

RETRO-FUTURISTIC FASHION PROJECT (2024).

Designs from a collaborative project last year, exploring retro-futuristic fashion. My idea was futuristic Renaissance. The drawing on the left is retro-future Venice.

DRAGONFLY MIGRATION PROJECT (2024).

Studies of India’s Red Fort, for a project imagining a future in which humans follow enormous mutant dragonflies on an annual migration from Louisiana to Delhi.

‘THE EDGE’ PROJECT (2025).

A university-led project, in which students work with lecturers as clients to a vague brief - a single image, in set dimensions, interpreting the prompt ‘the edge’. It’s been published in a book of the same name.

My idea was a ship, clearly from the era of steam power, discovering a mysterious ancient civilization. It explores the ‘edge’ between different eras and cultures, in the vein of Jules Verne. This is a set of pages refining composition for the second round of roughs.

Fearghal Hainsworth Art

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