Overall your response to
part two has covered all the exercises and the final assignment. You are
showing your design process effectively and you have started to tackle more
sketchbook work.
Your black and white
cut-out is particularly bold and shows a good level of craft with the cutting.
This approach enables you to focus on the essential pieces of the image so it
may be worth pursuing this style a little more if the opportunity arises.
I got off to a good
started with the first exercise and my tutor seemed pleased with my approach to
writing a brief for an illustration. She suggested adding a bit about what the
mood of the illustration would be but otherwise was pleased with the description
I had offered.
For the second exercise
we were focusing on generating ideas. I knew this was something Id been told to
work on more and tried to push myself to explore further ideas on the
spider diagrams. My tutor suggested pushing them even further and I asked how
far can you push them before they become irrelevant and my tutor advised me to
push it as far as I could and not worry too much about them becoming abstract
ideas as long as it can relate back to the original idea.
Your emotional response
to the different words is interesting and you could explore this further.
I found this response
from my tutor interesting and kept that in mind for future work.
The next exercise was
about generating ideas through sketches and a moodboard. At this point I was
still learning to develop my ideas and so perhaps didn't explore these as much
as I could have.
You have presented a
range of initial ‘exotic’ images that are potential starting points. It would
be helpful to see an initial mind-map and see how that could be explored beyond
literal associations to loosen up your ideas. You could then explore these in a
looser and more experimental way.
The moodboard could be
explored with maybe zoning areas more and looking at alternative layouts – you
could photo potential layout options.
I found the 1950's
research exercise really interesting but also quite challenging. I enjoyed
finding the visual reference, this was something new to me, a new way of
working than I was used to.
Your final image of the
girl in the chair listening to a record can be clearly traced back to your
initial research. The elements that you have included have a link to the 50s
and you have considered the colour scheme.
• a range
of other, initial ideas and thoughts including mind-mapping
• a range
of different layouts – how could the elements be used differently at a variety
of scales / positions / viewpoints
• some
alternative colour schemes
In terms of your design
process it would be beneficial to see:
• a range of other,
initial ideas and thoughts including mind-mapping • a range of different
layouts – how could the elements be used differently at a variety of scales /
positions / viewpoints • some alternative colour schemes
I was pleased with the
concept for my illustration but was definitely lacking the skills to deliver
what I had envisaged in my mind. I really like the quirky, fine line style of
illustration and would like to develop this further in the future.
Again, I still needed to work on developing my ideas further and exploring
alternative options.
For the mark making exercise I used different papers and mediums to see how
they reacted. I did struggle with this exercise as I am not great at exploring
other mediums in an in depth way. My tutor suggested drawing the cupcake from
different angles and sizes to further my tests.
The observational drawing tested my ability for drawing from reference. This is
something I need to develop further and practice. My tutor suggested using a
real life object rather than a photo to help with defining texture and
including details you couldn't see on a photo.
For the college piece I quite enjoyed making this. It was out of my comfort
zone but I enjoyed trying to make the paint tube look real but using obscure
textures for the collage. I was pleased with how this turned out. Again, I
needed to explore further ideas before jumping to the final piece.
I was so pleased with how my paper cut illustration came out for the black and
white exercise. I put a lot of time and detail into the piece and the result
was quite effective. I was already aware of the work of Rob Ryan and looked at
the other reference my tutor suggested as well.
The choosing content exercise was a lot of fun for me. I love to use my
imagination so to illustrate from some text of a story was an exciting task for
me.
At this point I wanted
to start incorporating digital drawing into my work as this was a skill I was
keen to develop and very new to.
You have presented a
clear design process for this exercise. It moves logically from research and
moodboard to initial idea and final piece.
The final image has a
good sense of mood.
it would be
beneficial to see:
• a greater range
of initial ideas that spring from a mind-map
• alternative layouts
that explore the mood in different ways and from different viewpoints
• an exploration of
light in the image – would the cigarette light up a little of his face? Is
the strip in the background a strip of light? If so would it catch part of his
profile?
I was really pleased
with the final illustration, especially since it was my first digital piece. I
thought about my tutors suggestions about the light but decided I liked the
simplicity and kept it as it was.
The next
exercise, drawing images to communicate a message or idea was quite difficult.
I think this is something I need to work on in the future even though the
people I asked could tell what I was trying to communicate with what I had
drawn.
Again at this
point my tutor was fairly pleased with how my work was progressing and
continued to suggest pushing my mind maps further, developing my ideas more and
looking at different angles, crops etc to make images more interesting.
At this point
my sketchbook work has started to improve but still needs further development
and my tutor asked me to consider adding more personal reflection on my
learning log.
