PPP Presentation Bronte Hall
Successes / Things I’ve learned Design! I’ve learned the importance of design and how it can affect a piece of illustration. I enjoyed the book cover project because of the design aspect.
Sketchbook The sketchbook is a place for testing and playing with ideas. Visual language helped to show that thinking through drawing can be fun, and that the sketchbook can be made your own and possess your tone of voice...
...experimenting, writing notes, not being serious, making characters. A finalised image isn’t the end goal.
Sketchbook It is also a place where all of the groundwork is done. Ideas can be planned out with roughs and storyboards. Testing sequences of images this way can make a more thought-out final..
Sketchbook The idea of sketchbook authenticity - that small sketches often done without thinking are more authentic looking. There is no self-consciousness in the drawing, they are less considered and as a result are gestural and flow better. I made them purely for me, and enjoyed doing so.
...I had fun making roughs of this little character, they turned out better than my final outcome
Organisation
This has been difficult!
oh darn
Outlook / Thoughts
Looking Forward & Level 5
What’s the deal with my work? The reflective nature of the course as well as various challenges have made me think about my work.
I realised that I wanted to share ideas with people; tell a story, highlight an idea or a piece of information, bring something to light through visuals. The concept, narrative, or research-based idea working hand-in-hand with visuals and imagery. What else is important to me? Making people think, creating a feeling, hopefully having a tone of voice come across (stories, jokes, humour?)
Here’s some examples...
Here’s some examples...
Discoveries Michael DeForge Reading his comics was a good decision. They are weird, personal, sometimes confessional, and aesthetically I admire the bold layouts, colours, and forms. It shows there is a place for the weird and strange.
Discoveries Mikkel Sommer An illustrator that I really like for their process, approach, and overall aesthetic. There is something playful and energetic, yet a sense of refinement due to the consideration for design and layout.
Discoveries Crumb (1994) - Interesting and quite shocking documentary. Explains the success of Crumb and how he propelled the underground comics scene. However, also made me think about the obligation / power image-makers have with the messages they include in their work and put across. How messages / content can be misinterpreted (e.g. vulgar/misogynistic messages from Crumb seen by some as forward-thinking or acceptable??)
Discoveries Why actively seeking out new things / information / forms of media / art / creative culture is important It can inform your own work, enhance it, act as source material for ideas and concepts?? Share and talk about these things, they could introduce someone else to something that changes their life! (Or your own)
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