Response to Tutor Feedback Part 3

 'Overall this is a good response and its clear that your techniques and illustrative style is developing as you challenge yourself to explore new techniques. 

Your character work and illustration style is well executed and its great that you’re developing your personal style including ways of working and colour pallets. Do continue to build on this whilst also allowing yourself to take creative risks and to experiment, spending plenty of time in your sketchbook, in order to keep expanding your practice. 

Its good to see you beginning to develop your illustrations into more complex narrative pieces. As mentioned, it would be good to see you developing your skills and awareness of communicating narrative and story in your illustrations in order to build upon your confident use of individuals characters: 

In your earlier exercises, for instance the .Gif and plasticine modelled duck your characters are diverse and strong. It would be great to see you combining these with scenes of with other characters, considering how compositions and postures etc can help to convey interactions between them. In the comic book exercises and assignment you begin to do this well. As you move forward, whether working with comics or not, it would be great to see you developing this attention to narrative.'

Part 3 coursework saw a big turning point in my illustrations and my understanding of visual communication. I began to uncover a passion for narrative work and a hunger to learn from other comic book and graphic novel illustrators.

This is an area I would like to work on further and develop my skills to create stronger illustrations that communicate well to the audience.

My tutor suggested I look into work by Scott McCloud, who has written about understanding comics in his blog and has published books.

In this part of the course I am learning how to broaden my research but still need to focus in on one or two illustrations and analyse them in more depth. Asking myself how the use of colours, textures and line work communicates to the viewer.

I am now narrowing down my focus for my critical review and am excited to delve deeper into my research on creative introverts and how art gives them a voice.