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Part 4: Reflection on feedback

Overall feedback

In this section of the course it is great to see you continuing to develop your digital technical illustration skills whilst experimenting with a good range of styles. You work in a thoughtful and well researched way, and your reflection shows a good level of self awareness and desire to continue to challenge yourself to work in increasingly creative ways. As you move forward, it would be great to see you taking note of these areas of interest, for instance your love of digital skills and your desire to challenge your creativity, in order to continue to experiment, develop and reflect on your illustration work.
In many of your exercises you respond to your brief in a well structured way that integrates research, with idea development and experimentation well. In your assignment piece, it feels as though your moved more quickly into designing your work. As you move forward, do look to bring research into assignment work too through finding illustrators with thematic or stylistic links to your chosen topic as this should help you to figure out the opportunities for working with challenging themes, and to uncover and reflect on creative ways of approaching a theme. In your assignment piece for instance, you could have researched other illustrators and artists who have worked with still life in different creative ways. This could have helped you to work through the challenge that you mention is presented through this focus.
As well as doing broad research, its good to see you going into more depth in some areas too in order to analyse and reflect on work. This is seen in your focussed research into the collage artist Hoang. I like the way that you have annotated these images in order to show your thoughts on them. It feels clear, concise and stylish.

My response to the feedback

It’s good to see that my passion in digital art is obvious in my work and my tutor recognized it as well. I agree that the assignment was a bit challenging for me and perhaps more research about the illustrator who worked in that topic would help me to find a better way to respond to the brief. Reflecting on how others do this should help to also inform my own approach to choosing styles or techniques in order to be as communicative as possible. Based on the feedback that I received, I know that I need to test more options before jump into the final work.

Action points

  • Challenging my creativity by testing out more ‘options’ in my development stages through experimentation. This could include testing options for colour palettes or style.
  • Considering how important style and colour are in order to communicate. Use deeper research to reflect on how different illustrators choose to use a combination of techniques in order to communicate their message or atmosphere.
  • taking note of the areas of my interest.
  • Developing an awareness of the range of styles available within different medium and to choose methods to help my communicate or express a style.
  • Reflecting on what kinds of themes and methods I am drawn to in helping me to develop my personal style.

Further research

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