Over the Christmas period, I visited my hometown (Southend On Sea) and photographed using the square Instagram camera rather ugly, or eye-saw buildings that don’t stick out in a good way, such as: squats, the Kursaal and my old college. 

 When I arrived home, I gray scaled my images on Photoshop and printed them off onto various mediums such as: acetate paper, calico, tracing paper and card. 
Besides the acetate, which caused the ink to leak and transform into a gooey mess, my mediums produced great outcomes for my images. 
The purpose of this task is for my fanzine I’m creating at University, mine is completely absorbed around catwalk fashion, hence why I’m representing Southend as not a good venue to host a catwalk expedition.
To some, this may seem like an odd activity to include within ones fashion project, but like any successful artist/illustrator/designer, I like to think outside the box.

Overall, my aim was to make Southend look like one huge council estate,
and I feel I have suceeded this look by adding a black and white filter, which adds effect to making this town look very dull and dreary.
Although catwalk shows have being held in the college, along the beach and various other places, but have never deemed that great a success. 
Therefore, I’m trying to get across to my audience why you wouldn’t want a fashion event at this location and in my sketchbook, I have added stories of the truth behind Southend. 
To explain further, when tourists, or people from completely different towns visit this part of Essex, for the day they think it’s a wonderful place to take a stroll, do some shopping, or go to the arcades. 
But anyone who lives in Southend, will know the truth behind it all…that it’s a shithole and you can’t go anywhere near the Kursaal if you’re a woman, because you will most likely be asked out by some Granddad pervert.