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Illustrated Self - Final Poster

What I like: 

. The colours work well together, I was a bit skeptical about using blue and yellow but it worked out a lot nicer than I thought it would 

. Layed out well, things are spaced out pretty good, doesn't look too cluttered but doesn't look empty either

. Definitley more my kind of thing. This is one of the few pieces of work that I've produced this year that I'm happy with, I'd like to push myself further with this 

. Managed to represent myself without having to draw a picture of myself

What I don't like: 

. Some of the paint isn't applied great

. Didn't rub my pencil marks out before I started painting so some of them are still visible, especially under the yellow paint 

. If I did this again, I'd probably expand it? Or make some of the little icons a little bigger maybe

Overall I'm pretty happy with this, it's a good piece to end the year on. I think it reflects me well as an individual and an illustrator and has allowed me to work in a style that I enjoy working in, I hope this is something I can bring forward with me into second year. 

Illustrated Self - Development

Thing I want to include in my finished poster:
. plants, leaves, flowers - representing nature and growth
. main icon would be a hand holding a pencil - represents me as a creative, this will be central with all the other motifs and symbols floating around
. scissors, ink, pens, pencils - represents tools and media
. coffee mugs, crystals, dogs and skateboards - personal interests and things that i like
. books, sketchbooks - represent research, learning and development
. clock, calendar - showing time management and passing of time
. owl - represents leeds, leeds is where I was born, I moved away for quite a while and now I'm back and i love being here so much.

I started off with some simple line drawings of plants and leaves to get into the flow of things, I really liked how these turned out, they have a delicate appearance and are quite simple yet I think the simplicity of the line does add bit of personality or character to the drawings? 

I wanted to add colour and decided to go with a yellow and blue, I don't think the colours will be this bright when I do my final poster, it's just they were the only ones I had that were closest to the colours that I wanted. I'm a lot happier with the direction this is going, it's definitely a lot more in line with the work that I've been producing at home and it's nice to finally be able to start combining the two. 

Pretty sure I'm just going to paint my poster. I like producing work that looks a little more handmade, so I think just sticking to hand crafting my poster will be nice, I think I've had enough vectors for this year. I'm a lot happier with this idea than I was with my previous one, this feels a lot more like my work and it's something that I've enjoyed sketching out and developing, I'm looking forward to seeing  how my final poster turns out. 

Illustrated Self - Written Diagram Number 2

I made another little diagram that was bit more simple but that helped me see how things linked up. I think one of the big things for me is that right now being outside and spending time in nature or with animals is really helping me. It's doing my mental and physical health a hell of a lot of good and that in turn is inspiring my work, and helping me become a better practitioner by giving me a bit of time away from my desk so I can focus when I come back to working on something.

After making this it was a lot easier to see how different aspects of my life and personality linked up and how they in turn linked up with my practice. I think I'm going to sketch a few bits and pieces out and try and create something a bit more 'me'.

Change of Plan

I've changed my mind! I want to do something different!

I was working on the positives for my screen print and i thought why am I doing this again? Why am I trying to make work that I think will fit what other people like? Why can't I just do something that I like? 

I feel like sometimes there's a lot of pressure to create work that fits a certain style or that people will find playful or funny and it's just not me. I prefer work that's bit more delicate and that provokes a feeling or emotion, drawings that are quiet subtle and delicate. And I'm only just starting to realise that there's nothing wrong with that at all, I can still make that kind of work and honestly, it doesn't matter if people like it or not, I really need to push myself to be happy with the work I'm producing and start working in a way that i enjoy and I think this poster could be the first little step towards finding my feet a little bit. 

Illustrated Self - Poster Ideas

 I started to develop a few ideas that I had floating around. I like the idea of symbolising loads of stuff that had popped up on my written diagram and placing it all together to create this big bundle of 'me'

One idea that I thought would work really well was to have an image of the back of a jacket, with loads of patches and images sewn onto the back. Each of the patches would represent a different aspect of myself and my personality/practice. I thought this was a cool idea because it's personal too me, it fits the kind of things that i'm into and I thought it was more original that some of my other more cliché ideas.

I developed my rough into a larger pencil drawing and then made a quick copy in colour. I've really enjoyed looking at work that includes limited pastel colours and it's something that I've tried to incorporate into my work and would like to try and incorporate into this piece.

I think I'll most likely be screen printing this, the bold blocky colours would look nice screen printed and I could get away with just using two colours and overlapping them to create a third.
Pretty sure this is what I want to do for the final poster.

Illustrated Self - Written Diagram

 
I made two written diagrams so I could try and see where things began too overlap.

I find stuff like this so difficult, I have a fairly negative perception of myself and so struggle to find positives in my personality or my practice.
I also struggled to see where my personality and my practice overlapped. This year I've noticed a massive gap between the work I produce for uni and the work I produce for myself and this became more evident to me when I started trying to do this written diagram. I feel like I make a lot of work for myself that connects to my interests, experiences and personality and yet the work I'm producing for uni is usually stuff that I don't enjoy working on and that I feel I'm doing just so that other people will like it?

I'm going to try and push myself with this poster and let myself come through a little bit, I think I'll just move onto roughs for now and see what happens.