What is your question? Authorial Tone : How does personal drawing practice drive professional practice for an illustrator? What is the question’s background?
Illustration Practice
Drawing/ Mark making
Drawing as a language
Research surrounding drawing
Methodologies of drawing practice
Tone of voice within practice
To suggest that ongoing drawing practice helps create a personal language which is then used in client based work (as a reason behind your selection) Why is it important to you?
I want to better understand what illustration is and how drawing practice is intrinsically linked with this professional practice. I want to learn about it from the viewpoints of professionals and academics who research it. I think my research will not define a set route or routine for drawing practice as an illustrator because I realise this will be distinctive to the individual, more to investigate the benefits and thought processes behind it and the personal language/ tone of voice which develops with exercised drawing practice. How will it contribute to your development? I hope by deepening my understanding of what illustration is today it will better inform the way I approach projects and briefs. By exploring other practitioners methods of drawing practice and how it influences their professional work I hope to bridge a gap I feel I have between personal and professional practice. Are they definably different?
How are you going to research it? I could use qualitative research methods to explore the why and how’s of decisions made in drawing practice would this be possible? How do I measure this? Investigating performative research as a new paradigm for illustration research, this has already been researched by Stephanie Black, how can her research aid me?
Varoomlabs
A Manifesto for Performative Research; Haseman, Brad (2006)
Writing on Drawing Steve Garner
Authorial Tone Steve Braund
What will your practical outcome be? My research will focus on how drawing practice influences professional practice, should my practical outcome be a tool aimed toward professionals to aid drawing practice? Or should I think about using my research to target young adults as a campaign to engage with drawing? Or should I target my peers/illustration students? Using my research to positively encourage people to draw? A campaign? E.g The Campaign for Drawing/ The Big Draw A colouring book? A drawing diary? A sketchbook or project with collaborative input A project/exhibition which looks behind the finished outcome/illustration *I can’t use my research to try and influence how people implement drawing practice ____________________________________________________________________________ Is this too broad? Am I asking a real question or just wanting to investigate my interests? How do I understand/measure what drawing means?