Overall feedback
Your work in this part of the course continues to show a good level of engagement with different exercises along with a developing technical ability in both handmade and digital drawing. As you move forward, it would be great to see you drawing inspiration from and reflecting more critically on a wider range of inspiration in your research in order to consider more creative and communicative approaches to working with imagery and texture. Some of your digital experiments and hand drawings are beginning to show an interesting use of texture and mark making and it would be great to see you developing this through allowing this to shine through in finished digital works and through reflecting on how your creative choices can impact the communication within your illustrations.
My response to the feedback
Glad to see that my tutor mentioned about my developing technical ability, which is something that I really try to improve. Based on my tutor feedback, I need to practice drawing inspiration from and reflecting more critically on a wider range of inspiration in my research in order to consider more creative and communicative approaches to working with imagery and texture.
Action points
- Taking the research from a wider range of inspiration sources, e.g. from different styles, themes or disciplines.
- Developing methods of gaining broader research inspiration and observe, compare and reflect on what methods different designers use and how this impacts the feeling or messaging in their work.
- Allowing time for developing expressive illustration styles through experimentation and engaging with exercises
- Challenging myself to bring this into digitally finished works and avoid over finishing works unless I am intentionally aiming for a ‘hyper real’ feel.
- Considering the balance between the digital and handmade and what can be achieved through using both together.
Further research
- Illustrators who work with the handmade illustration
Maryam: OCA Graphic Design 