Process & Practice
Sketchbook pages consisting of notes, drawings, lectures and workshops.
Lectures
Workshops
Life Drawing
To help with this project I tried to attend as many life drawing sessions as i could! really helped to develop my figure drawing, but i think i need to move onto rendering them at this point as i have sketching them mostly down.
Outcome Development
Project Outcomes Development
Final Piece
CMYK print
ok so apparently im so turbo independent and mildly stupid because i never connected that we were ment to use the cmyk dot seperations to make this outcome. i just… assumend it was a shourtcut we could use but not required. so i painted out the seperations… using ink… by hand.
so while i did use lithography to print those (and i personally really like them i could see the print in a white womans kitchen) i didn’t have time to redo it due to the strikes properly. SO. i did do the dot seperations- but tried it at home with my inkjet printer! i used the padlet tutorial and the instructions for the screenprint dotmaps because the dots were more prevelent when printed! The dots don’t match up in their right places so it looks a little fuzzy, but im really happy i learnt the process!
Evaluation
For this project, I really enjoyed the concept! I think I did well with jumping into the project despite being ill those first two weeks and unable to attend the launch/lectures. My workflow and study was well balanced, and I continued steadily throughout the few months this project ran. I decided to move away from digital for this project and focus on my traditional painting skills. My research into older paintings cemented my desire to learn oil painting for this project. While I am certainly more skilled in oil painting now- grappling with a new medium distracted me from learning fully the colour theory/specific approach needed to achieve the warm tones, rendered materials and overall quality that I was wanting to emulate for the ‘poetic’ aspect of this brief. With the new medium I shrank back into my comfort zone (figures and fashion models) whilst practising it, not learning what I would mainly be using it for- environments. However I do realise I have made great strides in my traditional painting skills.
The workshops introduced new concepts to me/how they could be implemented into a workflow. The 3D model was a fantastic way to work on my background design skills without becoming overwhelmed with the concept of painting it all- it reduced it down to shapes, lines and shadows. However I simply did not spend enough time designing, or making it. The layered and cluttered feeling I was attempting is there in the final piece to a degree, but not as much as I was envisioning. I focussed far too much on the characters, when I should have dedicated a larger amount of my time to the designing of the environment and having it reinforce the themes/story.
Overall, while disappointed with the overall quality of the final painting, I understand that I was attempting multiple new techniques (model making and oil painting), and how my time and practising efforts were misdirected into figures, rather than backgrounds. The cmyk print has taught me much more than I knew about how images are printed, and while I got the process partially wrong, I am proud that I came up with the solution/practice techniques that I did, despite my lack of technical equipment.