Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Illumination Week 1: Idea Development


What went well?
  • Having thought of so many ideas I was surprised by how easy I found it to visualise them and I think that some of them are really interesting. The ones which aren't so literal are my favourite. 
  • I have become really interesting in this idea that man is essentially nature yet he tries to separate himself from it through culture. I want to continue to play with this concept but I'm not quite sure how to present it visually yet.



What did I find a challenge?
  • Having so many ideas, I wasn't sure when to stop. I think that I maybe didn't allow myself time to develop each idea much because I was so keen to visualise each and every one (I am now going to have to work hard next week). I wish that I had time to to maybe play around with colour and composition more and not limited myself to pencil. It could be interesting to play around with paper cut, particularly if I go on to pursue a more abstract image. 
  • I also think that I might have gone off on a bit of a tangent with some of my drawings. This happened because I only read and highlighted the article once before leaving it and going mad with ideas.

How an I going to move forward?
  • At the minute I am at a bit of a stuck point, which I'm hoping Jamie can get me out of in my tutorial. I need to choose just three ideas to develop before I can move forward but I really can't decide which ones. In order to decide this I want to ask Jamie about how my image needs to relate to the text. Can it reflect a separate suggested idea? Does it have to literally reflect what the article is saying? Does it have to sum up everything said or can it just relate to a part? 
  • In continuing to develop my ideas I also want to start playing around with colour and maybe try working digitally?

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