Reflection Of Work....

At the Beginning of this year I found that I had quite a lot of issues with my standard of my work , My figure and location drawing wasn’t to a great standard , I still found it daunting to use basic photoshop and  that I didn’t  experiment with media as much as I would have liked to

When drawing the human form, I tended to exaggerate the figure, elongating the legs and giving them quite delicate features, this style wasn’t working for me and I decided to correct this by doing more and more Life and Figure drawing.  I was able to develop my style and I saw a drastic change from last years work to this years . My sequential project this year was not a success for due to  my lack of figure drawing , 

I have learned from this and began to really research into the figure and pose I wanted  before drawing it in my style . For my children’s book I decided to challenge areas that I found difficult and this was the figure proportions and drawing children , I have always found proportions difficult and for this project I think it was wise to choose to draw something that would challenge and stimulate my own personal practice . Overall my figure drawing has gotten much better and this is mostly due to the research, figure  and location drawings I would do Authorship projects and other modules.

I tended to use the same media over and over again and this year decided to try some new types of media as well as develop the ones I already knew worked well for my images. Copics and water colour  have always worked well for me and I continued to use these this year , I saw myself getting more confident with them and with the colour experiments I found myself moving away from the greyscale color scheme to more colourful and tonally varied pieces of work. I also ventured back to using ink  briefly as  was this  a media which I enjoyed working with in the past and thought I could develop more in . 

I think one of my best developments in my personal practice was that I experimented  with Photoshop a lot more. This is a program which I have struggled with for a while now and was always hesitant to use, however , during my Narrative project I found myself experimenting with the program and by the time the Children’s Book module had finished I had taught myself basic editing, digital painting and many other skills which were very helpful for the module. 

I now find myself using photoshop quite a bit for my work , with me drawing and colouring the majority of my work traditionally and then editing and adding background on photoshop, I still to work on creating backgrounds as I often make they too overbearing and distracts the viewer from the main image, but this is something for me to work on .

Overall I think I have tried to be more adventurous and looked at  many of the  areas  which I find challenging , I have worked on them and will continue to develop my personal practice. I feel more confident with my own style now and not so hesitant when it comes to drawing figures, colouring or using new media , I found that I enjoyed creating and developing characters and narrative for my projects and this is something which I would like to explore more in the future  as I enjoy looking at the development of characterisation ,  how to incorporate this into a narrative  and the process of designing the characters and environment .