Overall I am pleased with the work I have completed throughout this module; although I still feel like I could have done more with each brief. I find it difficult to condense my ideas down efficiently and the result of that has been that whilst I have produced work in sketchbooks which I have been very happy with, often those ideas, in my opinion, lose something on the way to becoming the final outcomes. For this reason I have not been particularly happy with any of the specific end results, aside from the typology poster- ‘How to make toast’. I think this is because when I was creating that final outcome, I remained very loose and relaxed in my approach and settled on a concept I was happy with, with relative ease, during the roughing stage.
I think in the cases of the other briefs I was much more undecided on where I wanted to go with regards to
the final outcome and also found that, gradually, the idea of something being a ‘final version’ caused me to
work less freely and thus the work lost some of the energy I felt was present in quick sketches and ideas
generation in my sketchbooks.
Another factor, which I feel may have impeded my work, has been the two week time limit on creating the work. I feel like I still need to get used to working in short timespans, developing ideas more drastically or radically within that amount of time in order to push it more to a point where I’m happy with it, and haven’t lost momentum by the time I’m creating a final outcome. For instance in my editorial brief; the landscape illustration of the girl avoiding cracks in the pavement I was happy with, and felt I had imbued with character, but the scary Mary Poppins, whilst being a drawing I still liked, felt rather stale after drawing it so many times in my sketchbook without actually changing it all that much. The square outcome I really wasn’t happy with, it was very much a half- baked idea which, although had potential, didn’t come to fruition in the end. I was running out of time and just sort of threw it together.
The editorial project also threw up some practical issues for me in that two of the illustrations I decided to draw twice as big and then scale down so I didn’t feel confined when I was drawing them. I didn’t realise that one of them was too big to scan in (girl), and I ran out of studio time to scan the other one in (Mary Poppins) so ended up having to take photographs of them and printing them off.
As a result I felt like I ended up with a bit of a mess of outcomes, in inconsistent sizes and formats, and the whole project, despite fulfilling every requirement of the brief, didn’t feel very finished.
I was happier with my book cover, and it was definitely the project that provoked the most thought and consideration in me. I had quite a lot of ideas bouncing around during this brief and only managed to narrow it down right towards the end, but I enjoyed it the most due to some of the concepts I was able to come with as a response. My only issues with my final outcome are ones related to the cover not quite fitting the book and becoming a little dog eared in the process of me wrangling it on. Other than that I was happy with design and execution.
Overall I very much enjoyed this module; the fact that the briefs were only two weeks and occurred consecutively in quick succession was challenging but kept me on my toes, and from getting bored. It was frustrating that I didn’t feel I developed my ideas enough sometimes, but I feel I will get better at that with time and am not too worried about it. I also want to try and experiment with more processes as I mainly just worked in ink for this module.
Another factor, which I feel may have impeded my work, has been the two week time limit on creating the work. I feel like I still need to get used to working in short timespans, developing ideas more drastically or radically within that amount of time in order to push it more to a point where I’m happy with it, and haven’t lost momentum by the time I’m creating a final outcome. For instance in my editorial brief; the landscape illustration of the girl avoiding cracks in the pavement I was happy with, and felt I had imbued with character, but the scary Mary Poppins, whilst being a drawing I still liked, felt rather stale after drawing it so many times in my sketchbook without actually changing it all that much. The square outcome I really wasn’t happy with, it was very much a half- baked idea which, although had potential, didn’t come to fruition in the end. I was running out of time and just sort of threw it together.
The editorial project also threw up some practical issues for me in that two of the illustrations I decided to draw twice as big and then scale down so I didn’t feel confined when I was drawing them. I didn’t realise that one of them was too big to scan in (girl), and I ran out of studio time to scan the other one in (Mary Poppins) so ended up having to take photographs of them and printing them off.
As a result I felt like I ended up with a bit of a mess of outcomes, in inconsistent sizes and formats, and the whole project, despite fulfilling every requirement of the brief, didn’t feel very finished.
I was happier with my book cover, and it was definitely the project that provoked the most thought and consideration in me. I had quite a lot of ideas bouncing around during this brief and only managed to narrow it down right towards the end, but I enjoyed it the most due to some of the concepts I was able to come with as a response. My only issues with my final outcome are ones related to the cover not quite fitting the book and becoming a little dog eared in the process of me wrangling it on. Other than that I was happy with design and execution.
Overall I very much enjoyed this module; the fact that the briefs were only two weeks and occurred consecutively in quick succession was challenging but kept me on my toes, and from getting bored. It was frustrating that I didn’t feel I developed my ideas enough sometimes, but I feel I will get better at that with time and am not too worried about it. I also want to try and experiment with more processes as I mainly just worked in ink for this module.
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