Reflection on Tutor Feedback for Assignment 2

It was a relief to get this feedback, as I had been a little anxious about it. It was largely positive feedback, however I need to unpack my reflections and my preliminary planning stages of my work. I need to spend more time on the method. Perhaps coming up with ideas at the spider diagram

Part 2: Assignment 2: Point of sale display

I began this exercise with a brainstorming session on each category as follows: I then arranged the Autumn composition in as aesthetically pleasing an arrangement as I could manage, using a small crate to house the vegetables and contain them. This allowed me to prop them up so that as many of the vegetables could

Part 2: Visual Metaphors: High Achievement

I began by scribbling a few thumbnails on a scrap of paper just so: I’m starting to learn how to sketch ideas out on my iPad rather than in a sketchbook in order to make use of the reference feature in Procreate: The reference window allows you to import images and have them to hand

Part 2: Christmas Day: Choosing Content

I spent Christmas morning looking at this exercise, ‘Choosing Content’. I came up with this, as close an approximation to my mental picture conjured up by the written excerpt of prose in the coursework brief. I found I needed to set up, ably assisted by my partner, a mock-up for the light effect of the

Part 2: Black and White Exercise

The above images were produced as per the coursework brief by cutting and pasting areas of black from the following inverted pencil drawing. Though the image was not my own original composition, I feel I’ve adapted it sufficiently to impress myself upon it. Having clarified the brief somewhat via the Illustration community on the Discord

Part 2: Creative Thinking and Problem Solving: Objective and Subjective Drawings

Objective Drawing: The above image is my response to the objective drawing exercise. It was my first effort of the day. I’m fairly pleased with the outcome. It took approximately 20 minutes to draw in pencil on A4 cartridge paper. It was difficult to get the form clear due to the transparent nature of the

Part 2: Exercise: Continued media experimentation

I chose the “gourd woman” on the right as my subject for today, having tired of drawing apples. Having drawn onto the fragile paper using a sharp pencil, I rapidly arrived at the conclusion that this medium was not best suited to this particular support. I decided therefore to create a stamp design which I

Part 2: Exercise: Experiments with different media

I chose an apple as my subject.  Initially I took a bite out of it, then I took another… Once bitten into, the apple didn’t stand a chance. I had to work fairly quickly as it was browning exposed to the air. I hate wasting food so chose to eat it before it was too

Part 2: Exercise: The 1950s

Like the decade that preceded it, Britain in the 1950s was a time saturated by American culture. Even with the greater prevalence of television – driven by the ’53 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II – with its invasive and highly effective advertising techniques, post war britain continued to flock to the movies to see the

Part 2: Exercise : Moodboard: Exotic

I had fun with this. I think that was because I was given a theme and allowed to run with it. Unlike the first assignment, where it was a case of “anything goes”, the supposed limitations of a brief, however open it is to interpretation, does help the creative juices to flow. I included my