Initial Research

                                                   Highgate Cemetery

The original wooden part of the cemetery opened in 1839, in the idea of proving seven large cemeteries, now known as the Magnificent Seven; around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead.

The cemetery is located on both sides of Swain's Lane in Highgate, N6, next to Waterlow Park. The main gate is located just north of Oakshott Avenue. There is another disused gate on Chester Road. The cemetery is in the London Boroughs of Camden, Haringey and Islington.

The most famous burial in the East cemetery is arguably that of Karl Marx, whose tomb was the site of attempted bombings on 2 September 1965 and in 1970

There are many other prominent figures, Victorian and otherwise, buried at Highgate Cemetery. Most of the historically notable figures lie in the eastern part. Tours of the most famous graves are available but, due to vandalism and souvenir hunters, visitors are no longer allowed to explore unaccompanied, unless they have a personal connection with the cemetery and hold a pass to their deceased relative's grave

                                                    Burke and Hare

The Burke and Hare murders, or West Port murders, were a series of murders committed in Edinburgh, Scotland. Over a period of about ten months in 1828. They sold the Bodies of their 16 victims to Doctor Robert Knox as dissection material for his well-attended anatomy lectures. Burke and Hare's alleged accomplices were Burke's mistress, Helen McDougal, and Hare's wife, Margaret Laird. From their acts came the now archaic British word "burking", originally meaning to smother a victim or to commit an anatomy murder but which later passed into general use as a word for any suppression or cover-up

                                         Lemmy Kilmister

Lemmy (Ian Fraser) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead. His music was one of the foundations of the heavy metal genre.Thus being the reason why I mentioned him being ‘old school’ because if Lemmy wasn't kicked out/left Hawkwind then we wouldn’t have heavy metal as we do today

Lemmy is also known not only from Motörhead and Hawkwind but also for his love of the Beatles to which he says influenced him in making metal. Also because of this love, he became a roadie for good ol’ Jimi Hendrix and the nice before joining the space rock band Hawkwind  

Though Lemmy is known for his thrash metal punk rock mash up band Motörhead he also has a fond loving for Nazi memorabilia and Nazi symbolism. Kilmister has stated that he did not ever support the Nazi regime or anarchism.

His personal style is one that cannot be summed with one word such as ‘Gothic, punk, metal, western or military.’  It’s sort of a mash up of them listed, He was distinctively known for the cowboy hat rested upon his head, he wore black quite often, always having specially made boots for Motörhead and 9 times of 10. Also Lemmy would have an iron cross somewhere on his body.

Gothic Architecture

Gothic architecture can be recognised mainly by the characteristics of pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress; large windows which are often grouped, or have tracery; rose windows, towers, spires and pinnacles. Though Gothic architecture was around from the 12^th-16^th century and died out – you can still view it today in abbeys, cathedrals and ninety percent of churches within Europe.

 

Initial Sketches

Here's some of my initial Sketches, The one above ^ is a good idea but I wont be using it as my final design because I've got 14 weeks to do this project and to make a the hat in Maya will take up most of that time therefore I wont use this as my final Design

The set of three gravestones are not only some initial sketches but it's also how I got around from the shrubbery in the Highgate entrance gate in drawing gravestone

The drawings above aren't as detailed as the others because these are simply ones that popped into my head and they are not ones that i had found from the internet.

For Developmental ideas I plan on using ones from artist research or primary research.

Highgate cemetery drawing

I Attempted to Draw the gate entering to Highgate Cemetery but had found it difficult because of the shrubbery around this old building so instead to follow my graveyard idea i will be finding some gravestones to draw 

The Problem I encountered was that I simply found it too difficult to draw making sure the lines were right and trying to work in with the shrubbery. I overcame the problem by simply leaving the drawing where it was; then going on to drawing something else. I implemented these drawings and posted them to my blog, thus also showing how i got around the problem.

A Choice i made was to completely scrap the idea of drawing the Highgate Cemetery Entrance, I made the choice to do so because I found it too annoying to draw. Personally I feel it was the right decision to make otherwise I would spend a while to draw it and wouldn't be this far into the project.