OUIL402 Poster Task - Personal, Professional and Ambition

I missed the session where we were briefed in this task so to start, if I have got the wrong end of the stick with this task that is why.

Anyway, after talking to some people in the studio I figured that I needed to create three posters based around lists made for the following categories: Personal, Professional and Ambition. I figured the aim of the posters was to sell/promote ourselves in some way so started making lists for those categories.

First Lot of Lists

Final Lot of Lists

Personal:
. Kinda lame
. Stupidly shy
. Super friendly once I've gotten over being so shy
. Plant lover
. I want to explore
. Adventurer
. Avid nap taker
. Bookworm
. Small person with BIG ideas
. Dog lover
. Average cook
. Ghost hunter/scaredy cat
. Super awesome air guitarist

I found writing a list of traits I valued about myself extremely difficult. I severely struggle with my confidence and I'm so unbelievably uncomfortable talking about good things about myself. I can talk crap about myself no end but ask me to name something I like about myself or something that I think I'm good at and I don't know what to say. Even though I struggled making the list, once I'd managed it I was quite okay making a little poster about who I am as a person.

Professional:

. I always try my very very best

. Committed 

. Motivated (mostly) 

. I am in love with what I do

. Major stresshead

. Averagely organised person

. Adaptable, I can adapt my visual signature

. I am eager to create

. I love researching and finding out new things

. Ink and pencil are the best

This poster sucked to make mostly because at this point in my life and my practice I do not in anyway consider myself a professional yet. I am a student, I can't really look after myself and I still need my mum to sort my life out for me occasionally. I have very little idea how I would begin to sell myself as a professional, once again down to the confidence thing so I thought screw it, lets just be honest with this one. So here it is. 

Ambitions: 

. Draw, draw and draw some more

. Lets make zines and books

. Lets spread an idea

. Lets spread an opinion

. Lets spread a thought

. Advocate for mental health

. Advocate for the end of cruelty towards animals and humans alike

. I just want to spread good vibes and make people feel something

. I want to get better and be a better version of myself

This was ridiculously hard to get my head around. I know that I aspire to be an illustrator but an illustrator of what? I don't have a specific goal set in mind I am just hoping that I can find what I love,  and that other people will love it enough to let me earn a living from it. I will at some point find a more specific direction that I want to go in but for right now I just went for something simple, honest and straight from the heart. This poster, although difficult, means a lot to me, spending the day completing this task has kind of helped me realise what I want to be doing. I am an emotional person, sometimes I make emotional work and this is usually the work I invest my time into most and the work I am happiest with at the outcome. 

At the start of the course and for the past few months I've been trying to figure out what the point is to PPP, how will it help me develop? And now I think I get it a little more. This module gives me a bit of time to reflect on my practice and my professionalism but more importantly myself. I think a bit of attention as to how I'm working and how my mind is working and how this influences my practice would be beneficial to my work as a whole.