Response to Tutor Feedback Part 4

 Overall, Your work shows good exploration of each task. You take on Research, sketchbook and assignment tasks well and there are some fully resolved pieces here which show a sense of your developing creative voice. 

As you move into your final project it would be really good to see you fully integrating these different ‘sections’ of work into single exercises / projects in order to clearly show how your research and sketchbook work are linked to and inform your final pieces. I think that this would really help in making things clear to assessors when you submit an assessment. 

Make sure that your research / exercise and finished works are clearly linked together. In each subject you do make relevant research, however to develop, make sure that you are researching a broader range of illustrators; linking historic and contemporary and also exploring a range of relevant styles in order to reflect on different approaches to a certain subject / technique.

Part 4 was quite a challenging section of the course for me. I was disappointed to leave the narrative section as I felt that I was just scratching the surface of it and wanted to explore it further. The range of exercises in this part was diverse and I did struggle with the change of materials. However, I did put my all into each one and found myself quite interested in the street art, self publishing, pixel art and ceramic exercises. 

At this point in the course I was aiming to do broad research and choose different illustrators but still forgetting to go back further, rather than just looking at contemporary ones.

I found myself getting quite immersed in the research tasks and did find it hard to organise my research clearly and not go down rabbit holes. I will aim to clean this up and make clearer for assessors.

Self Publishing exercise feedback;

'You show real engagement with this exercise which is great. As you move forward do continue to allow yourself to focus on an develop the exercises, themes or topics that really interest you and to recognise this, in order to help you begin to recognise and develop your interests. This will enable you to begin to develop your personal style.'

 This is something that I am aiming to do more in future exercises. I see my voice emerging and want to build confidence in it.

The pixel art project was one of the research and exercise tasks that I seemed to flourish in. I enjoyed researching and looking at the history as well as contemporary takes on pixel art and how it has developed over the years. I still need to elaborate on why I like certain illustrations and explain more about the communication side. Learning to create pixel art using today's technology was a fun experience and the pixel icons I created from that were challenging but also a great form of self expression. Choosing the right colours and using a limited palette was also challenging because I needed to work out which colours would work well for shading, highlights and mid tones and how they would work next to each other. 

Overall, I feel I am headed in the right direction but still have a lot to learn and implement. Going forward I will aim to be more thorough in my research and reflections.