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Project Report Katie Wade Over the course of this module I have undertaken a variety of briefs to add to my portfolio and to progress myself as an illustrator. My main goals for this year were to advance my understanding of character design and narrative, to develop my colour palette usage and to understand composition to a higher standard as well as producing a higher standard of work for myself and my clients. I feel that all of these aims have been achieved through the briefs undertaken although it has not been easy. The Brief’s I struggled with this year were The Lifting Tower Project back in November and The YCN brief in march, but both for different reasons. The lifting tower project was particularly difficult at points, negotiating within a team is hard when everyone wants to make everything. It was very hard to get everyone to come in at the same time and hard to get everyone to agree. After countless meetings with my team I realised that I didn’t have to produce the concepts, the colour palette and all of the final products, this was a collaboration and I was working with people who could handle my concepts. Rather than insisting on doing all of the work to my standard, I delegated different roles to different members of the team and took charge. I offered up my concepts and only chose a few to continue with for myself rather than trying to complete them all. The colour palette was something I was truly insistent we had, after seeing the benefits through other artists work such as Tom Haugomat and Pascal Campion I knew that our work would instantly stand out more. Our final pieces came out to a satisfactory standard, I had multiple briefs running at the same time and I think if I did it again I would definitely organise myself differently. The YCN brief was difficult because it was such a vast brief, when I stated it as one of my briefs in my original statement for intent I thought that it would have regimented guidelines and there would be a certain level of professionalism. However, this was not really the case, the Roald Dahl brief was very vague and I struggled with that the most. I couldn’t focus on a way of working, I was creatively fidgeting. The way past this, was to make guidelines for myself, I decided to work to an A4 landscape format on all three pieces and set a timeline of a week of each piece which left me with a week to edit at the end (so a month overall). I was really unhappy with the end results of the YCN brief, I feel like I worked hard but there was not anything I produced that I would happily show to a future client. The only good thing to come from the YCN brief was a renewed love of gouache and painting. I have not done very much painting whilst on this course, mostly because I wanted to experience as much as I possibly could rather than sticking to what I know how to do. The introduction of gouache as a paint form into my life this year, was the key turning point for me. The briefs I was the most satisfied with this year were my final major project and my colours may vary pieces, again both for different reasons. My colours may vary pieces gave me the chance to explore embroidery as an art form, it was highly contested among tutors but it was a good chance for me to progress my colour palette skills if nothing else. Working with embroidery means you have to commit to a colour of thread and commit to a composition before you start. This way of working was good for me as it helped me realise that I really do enjoy working to guidelines and time frames. It is something that I will carry forward into my practice, even if the embroidery part of it remains just as a personal hobby. My final major project work has slowly been researched since January and with every week I was learning something new about folklore and fairytales, out of all the briefs I did this year


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