After completing the visual language brief for 'Set, Series, Sequence', we then presented our work to the class and collected some feedback. Since we had to show physical copies of our work, I was a little nervous at how my work was being shown. I did most of my work in my sketchbook, but I am also working on another brief in that same sketchbook, so there were some little blips in terms of the fluidity of how people were seeing my work. I had previously scanned in all my work and organised it all and uploaded it to this blog, but I was unaware that we were presenting in this way so I was kind of dreading the feedback.
Nevertheless, I was pleasantly surprised. I got mostly positive comments, which has given me some confidence in my drawing. I also really enjoyed looking at everyone else's work and I found I was inspired by it also. For example I really want to play around with water colours a lot more because the end result that some of my peers came out with blew me away. I also got some organisation tips off other people, not even on purpose. I saw someone has cut their page in half, in order to have two drawings on one page but easily separate them, whilst also adding some character to the presentation. I really liked this aspect and I am thinking about playing around with it in preparation for next time.
A lot of people complimented my post box with the line illustration, where I basically etched the whole thing, and I think I am going to apply this style to my next brief because I also really liked the outcome of it. The only downside to this is that it takes so long to do, but hopefully it would be worth it, especially since i am planning on drawing a lot of architectural type pieces.
Other people commented that they would have liked to see more colour in some of my drawings and some in my narrative. I saw this brief as an opportunity to explore a wide range of materials and see what my strengths and weaknesses are within them. Though I am nervous about adding colour to things as opposed to digitally, because I find I can work with that medium with much more confidence, however since I know colour can make such a big difference in aesthetics, then I think I will definitely try it out next time I do a storyboard, because I have yet to do that.
However I really appreciate all the comments I received on my work because it has motivated me to work even harder on the next visual language brief and it has influenced my direction to go in terms of styles, and it has also given me tips on how to improve which I am excited to work on!
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