Presentation Initial Thoughts - Type Up from Sketchbook Notes

Slide 1 

- Introduction, who I am

- How has this year been? (hella hard) 

- How has this affected me and my practice? 

- How I want to move on from this

Slide 2

- Where I was at the start of the year - excited, eager, wanting to explore new mediums and ways of image making

- Wanted to expand my knowledge of illustration, discover new applications of illustration and new practitioners

- What I expected from first year and what first year was actually like 

Slide 3 

- What new mediums have I explored - shape, texture, vectors, collage, 3D (burgh), composition

- What new practitioners have I discover? - Irana Douer. Lizzy Stewart, Laura Callaghan, Gemma Topliss, Talulah Fontaine 

- Why do I like this things? What don't I like? How has this influenced me? 

Slide 4 

- Where am I now/Mistakes? 

- Not coming in - Depression (do i mention this? do i leave it out?)

- Limiting myself through my sketchbook size

- Quanitity and quality of work has been a huge disappointment and something that I'm really ashamed of

Slide 5 

- Work I've done this year that i want to talk about/include?

- Typology

- Otley book

- Some work from visual Language? 

- Vector Postcards

Slide 6 

- Personal Work vs Uni Work 

- How do I break this boundary? What am I going to do about it? 

- How do I incorporate more of myself, my thoughts and my personality, into my work? 

Slide 7 

- I have done some good things this year

- From where I was a few months ago I've come quite far - boosted my confidence

- Illustration showdown - Networking - Confidence - Self Promotion - Becoming more involved in my practice

- I've really picked myself up lately, I've got back into the swing of things, I'm looking forward to a break and to come back in 2nd year with a fresh mind and a better approach to my practice

Slide 8+9 

- Next year I want to develop a more specific style/way of working

- Get involved in the studio space more

- Involve myself, immerse myself in my practice 

- Narratives and emotive work 

- Let my personality and experiences push through

Slide 10 

- Illustrated self - talk through it 

Slide 11 

Top Tip 

- Rest - don't overwork yourself 

- Look after yourself mentally and physically 

- This course is really important to me but I've learnt that if I don't look after myself I'm not going to be able to reach my full potential. 

This needs some serious refining, maybe a bit more planning out but these are some of the main things that I want to cover in my presentation. 

I'll probably come back to this and adjust it or add things too it later on.