OUIL502 PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 2 By Lizzy Patrick
My experience & response to Responsive modules • Responsive has enabled me to work as part of a team. • Quite nerve wracking. • Persuasive skills required • Being Deaf added an extra barrier- a communication barrier. • Used a ‘middle person’ to interpret my ideas • Once the ideas were out we worked well and the final product was something the team was pleased with • I had to change my style to meet the needs of an audience of children but the brief didn’t want cute: found a good middle ground
My experience & response to PPP modules • I have used this module to find out about the illustration world ‘out there’ • I have expanded my own personal practice making a photobook of my own work • have also blogged my outside professional activities eg wedding invitations I designed • I set up an interview with an industry creative
Who I am as a learner • What have I learned? A variety of printing styles e.g. screen printing, mono print, lino print • I also learned an animation programme on Adobe After Effects and used that successfully, mixed with screen print, in 504 • I have then used these new skills in 504 and really liked my final product • I like to learn under my own steam. I get the information in the lessons and I can watch the demonstrations but at home I really apply thissuing you tube, practising the process, pausing, reflecting, working at own pace. • I'm a visual learner
Who am I as an illustrator • I like life drawing outside. I like to draw people walking past; in their environment • This has really influenced my drawing enabling me to draw people very fast and effectively. • Body language, facial expressions- all have improved and speeded up. • The effect of this it would be easier now to do a graphic novel- I have the skills. • This was demonstrated in my Frankenstein illustrations- I am much better now especially at faces. • I have learned a lot from this
How what I've experienced has affected my aims and ambitions • I am clear I want to be a book illustrator. I came here wanting this. I thought originally children's books but I think not now- I want to do more life drawings, nothing cute. • A graphic novel would suit me. Not a comic book- people assume that’s super heroes. I don’t mean that- I mean something a bit more like the Walking Dead. • The subject matter of my graphic novel might be relate to life experiences • I’ve been looking at graphic novel ways of telling either fiction or non fiction e.g. life in a refugee camp
Creative concerns to explore over summer and in third year • I want to go to lots of art galleries • One I really want to go to is Paris, France. An old train station previously used to take people to concentration camps • It is close to the model of the statue of liberty made in France • I also want to draw a lot from my holiday- capturing people in their natural environment • In third year I’d definitely like to do more screen printing too, linked to the idea of story (like 504) maybe a full book of screen printing…?
Personal aims and professional ambitions • To create a book of some sorts • Or perhaps to create a series of individual pictures/prints which might in fact sell better • Have a stall and sell my prints? Perhaps at a fair. • I’d love to try Thought Bubbletoo late for this year but maybe next year. • I already use pinterest and Instagram- a mix of my photos and illustrations
Lectures, events and exhibitions. Study visits to studios, galleries • Went to a print fair in Leeds. Used this to look at what other people are doing. I asked someone there if he sells a lot and makes money. He said he can’t support himself with his art alone. • Thought Bubble 2017 • Paris gallery and other art attractions there • I went to a friend’s art show in Nottingham. Her theme was the sea. She made paper pulp which she threw at the canvas to create a textured surface. This was a new technique for me and one I’d like to try in the future- it’s a new way of creating texture