Play Play Play: roughs feedback and self-evaluation

SELF EVALUATION:

How effectively do you think you have tackled the first part of this brief? Have you been able to exhaust your ideas? How well have you used research to support the development of your ideas? Has drawing allowed you to visualise your ideas and evolve them further? Has seeing other approaches to the brief made you think differently about your ideas?

Typography is certainly not a strong point of mine and I struggled a lot with this brief, and was thankful to have this crit session quite early on in the project as the feedback I was given was helpful and informative. Regardless, I could have invested more time into the roughs which would have inevitably given better results.

The initial ideas I came up with were boring, cliche and sometimes didn't even make sense! But as I began to tackle through they became more interesting. Still, at the point of the crit I still don't feel like I have pushed my ideas enough, so I will continue to do so.

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In light of your feedback, what ideas do you intend to develop into final deliverable pieces?

The 'FLY' 'door/portal' was a popular idea. The composition has a dreamy energy to it, but I am concerned as to whether it can be classed as 'text as image' rather than 'text and image'. I hope to place the emphasis on the text to make the image more typographical.

I am also going to develop the fly as insect idea, and the humorous bird tattoo idea. However, I also like the fly as cool definition, and it would be a shame to miss that out. Maybe I can incorporate that into the bird and the fly.

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Outline briefly how you intend to generate the final deliverable artwork. Consider media, method, design, and application. What are the next steps required in development and refinement of your finals?

After developing some techniques and inspiration from the visual language module, I am considering using collage to create my final images. For this I will be preparing my own paper to work from. I will test this method, and if I feel it doesn't work I will probably use gouache, possibly in a similarly textured way. I would like the emphasis for this project to be on shape.

However firstly I will need to refine my roughs more!