Sign Language
I really liked this theme, as I thought it would be an interesting and very suitable subject, since Lizzie in my class is deaf, and I thought it might be a nice project to learn a little sign language throughout. However, after the crit on Monday I decided that this subject was fairly limiting, as the only drawing matter would be hands, and in a particular position too, so I decided I would like to explore a subject which I was able to put more of my own stamps on.
Country Shapes
Although I really liked the scope of this idea, and the different potential imagery I could make using it, I felt it lacked a little personality, as there was only really one set image, and it would just be the media I would be swapping. In addition I feel that this would work incredibly well using paper cutting techniques, but I fear this may have made the piece look a bit too flat and uninteresting.
Flowers
Since I used to work as a florist, the idea of flowers appealed greatly to me, as I was able to put my own stamp onto it by choosing my favourites for each letter. I think most flowers translate well into line form, but I feel a major issue with this idea would be the limited colour palette, as I feel the best way to work these images would be with a full and rich colour palette.
Global Greetings
This was one of my favourite concepts, as I really loved the individual and fun nature, as well as the opportunity to explore character development, which is something I haven't done much of previously. I did struggle a little with the research on this one, as there were a few letters which I had to search extensively to find a greeting for, but now I have a very distinct list I feel that this subject would be fairly straightforward, with still much scope to experiment with techniques and media.
Insects
Here I looked at different tones to experiment with interesting approaches to image making, through pen and ink and brush with watered down ink to create looser shapes before adding detail. I really like this set of images, as I think it has a very interesting tonal quality to it, but I feel that the subject matter is again being limited by the colour palette available, as I think these drawings would look really good with bold colour choices to reflect how diverse the colouring of insects really is.
Recipe
I thought this idea was quite interesting, as there are lots of ways I could play around with the compositions in order to create attention grabbing scenes where the drawings relate to one another and give a strong purpose to the poster. However, I feel it may be a little dull in some places, as a few of the images are fairly similar and may get lost in the translation of what the poster is trying to show.
Healthy foods
I really like the images in this collection, as I feel I worked well with varying tones to create drawings which I feel, despite not being accurate to reality, still held a strong sense of what they were trying to portray. During critical class feedback the quality of these was remarked upon, but it was agreed that the subject was a little bit uninteresting, therefore I may try to use this technique on another theme to advance it further.
Anatomy
This set of drawings was done very quickly, which I think may be the reason they are not quite accurate in scale, but I still quite like the joyful feel they hold, as I think the uneven line quality adds to the jovial attitude. In addition, I had a few suggestions concerning the composition of this piece, my favourite of which was lying then out in the positions they are in the body, and perhaps using cut paper, with the rest of the body parts being omitted, which is an idea I would love to explore more.
Sheffield
This was again another set of quick drawings, but I feel that this collection was a lot more personal to me as it is concerning my home town, which is obviously something I would love to explore more. However I feel like I would need more time to make this collection work, as well as the opportunity to draw on location, so I think I will have to discount this idea for now, and maybe revisit it later on in the course.
Sports
This was the most fun set of drawings to create, as I had to think logically abut how to construct the forms, which involved a lot of thinking about how much to strip away whilst still leaving enough information. Although I feel the subject itself isn't too interesting, I really like the effect the cut paper gives, and I would love to explore this further within my work.
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