Frank Ocean - Super Rich Kids - Final

I actually really like my outcome for this album cover, I love the rich colour scheme (rich being intentional) with the white space. I just think as a composition and overall image it's good to look at. I also like the context as explained earlier, how they seem irrelevant but is literally exactly what the song is about. I think sometimes extremely literal is a good road to go down, because people try to be so sideways that it actually ends up confusing and meaningless. 

I'm really glad that I decided to do portraiture for this album cover because I do think that it's a big part of my practice and maybe why I didn't like the previous two covers that much. This is something I should think about when doing more album artwork in the future. 

Initially I didn't like how you could see the paint brush strokes in the background, but now I've looked back at it I think it adds texture to the image as well as showing that it is a handmade piece of work and not made digitally. It almost makes it feel a bit more human. 

Frank Ocean - Super Rich Kids - Development

Onto the next one!! This song is also about living a luxurious lifestyle, but with a sadder ending (jumps off the roof). I was drawn to the lyrics of the song and is one of the main reasons why I chose to do it, as well as the way it's sung. So that is how I approached this song, looking at the lyrics and trying to visualise them as quick drawings. I didn't seem to be producing anything exciting or different, so I took a different approach and just typed in Google images 'super rich kids', then lo and behold....

It's only one of the richest kids in the world! I thought it would be kinda funny to have Jaden and Willow Smith as the album cover, because initially it seems they're completely random and out of context, but when put with the title of the song it is so relevant! 

Frank Ocean - Sweet Life - Final

This is my final outcome for 'Sweet Life'. I am quite happy with it, but I can't help but be distracted by how wonky the glass is and that puts me off the image. If I made it digitally then it would have been perfect but then I'm not very good at digital so maybe the rest of the image wouldn't have worked so well... Anyway, I think the context works with the fancy lifestyle being shown by the cocktail glass and I managed to get mango peaches and lime in which adds another connection to the song. 

I also like the minimal colour palette which I got by going on the adobe colour wheel

The colours were similar when I was painting, but have changed a little after being adapted to the screen but I don't think this matters too much because they still work well together. 

What I miss and actually is what I'm probably best at is figurative stuff. I think in my next album cover I should include some people on the front and I reckon it would be a more successful outcome. 

Frank Ocean - Sweet Life - Development

Whenever I listened to this song, even before I had this brief in mind, the lyrics 'mango, peaches and limes' always stood out for me and I honestly don't have a great reason for this. But I knew I wanted to have this in my image, but not so blatantly obvious with them like in the middle of the page. So to avoid this, I drew lots of obvious outcomes first to get them out of my system, which made me realise that this approach is actually quite successful. This is something that Christoph Niemann said that he does when I watched the episode about him in the Netflix series 'Abstract' (which I highly recommend). It has made me realise that the best way to generate ideas is just to draw, even if it doesn't feel relevant, as well as just writing words.

To give the album cover more context, I wanted to include some imagery about wealth, seeing as the song is about living in the high life. Although I was a bit unsure of how to approach this because I thought that it might end up a bit predictable, and it also needed to work with my mango, peaches and limes...

Frank Ocean album artwork as a brief?

I've really enjoyed doing the two previous Frank Ocean album covers so I want to turn this into a brief, spawning off from the illustration 12" brief. I has surprised me quite a lot because last year I didn't like doing any of the secret 7 covers and ruled it out as something I wanted to go into. But now I can't stop thinking of new ideas and concepts for this songs. I think it's mainly because I personally really like the artist, so I have more of a drive to create work in relation to them. Also (and this isn't me being biased) his lyrics and so visual and not just random words thrown together just because they rhyme. Everything is well thought out which helps me a lot when it comes to putting pen to paper.

I think I'm also doing this because I'm feeling really lost with my FMP, I'm not buzzing about it, it just isn't getting me excited and not sure why. I think I need to have a good think about it and maybe talk to other people.

Frank Ocean - Sierra Leone - Final

This is the final image that I painted. It's really simple, but I do quite like it. It doesn't really look like something that I would paint, but I don't think that matters too much. I really enjoyed completely stripping it back and having it as very basic shapes so you know what you're looking at straight away without having to decipher it. For me, I get the vibe from the song, because it's quite soothing and isn't a harsh sounding song on the ears, like it's quite soft. So I think the blue reflects that as well as the big open space. I don't think it would have been appropriate for the image to be full of things to look at. 

I think that the horses could have been painted a little bit better, but at least you can still tell that they are horses which I suppose is the most important thing. It was a bit weird for me to create some work which isn't satirical, but I don't feel like that is really an issue, I don't want people to just expect that from my work, I want to be able to do both. 

Frank Ocean - Sierra Leone - Development

After doing the album artwork for the Illustration 12" brief, I decided to do another Frank Ocean song. This is because I surprisingly really enjoyed doing it because I like the artist a lot and of course like creating artwork, so the two go together quite well. I think I'm going to make this into a brief and do as many of his songs as I can.

When it came to the development, I was a bit stuck with it at first. I had loads of colours that I wanted in my head from listening to the song, lots of warm sunset like colours. I know the song is about a made up story about him being a father way too young and he isn't ready yet, so wanted to work with that. I think I was stuck on wanting to have a big sun (a word and theme which seems to come up a lot in the song) with the shadow in the water being in the shape of a woman/pregnant woman. But after I kept drawing it it just didn't look right.

So I took a break from that and had another look at the lyrics - "Just ran outta Trojans, horses gallop to her throne" -  this lyric always stood out to me, I like the rhythm of how it's sung and how the two sentences are linked together. Then I began to draw horses  (which are one of the HARDEST things ever to draw). I wanted something simple with simple shape work, so just draw horses galloping? With the big sun in the background?? Simple.

Moby (Last one)

This final outcome is just one taken from one of my earlier quick paintings of Moby that I did after doing my first outcome. I actually think that this might be my favourite out of all of them, it's so simple yet you understand the purpose without needing a crazy background and deep metaphors. His tshirt also reads a lot better than my first outcome because the writing was too far up before.

Moby (Again) (Again)

These are two final images for another one of my Moby brief outcomes. Initially I couldn't decide between the two but now I think that the top image is better, limiting the colour palette even more creates a far better overall image in my view, as well as making it comprehendible faster. Although I'm not sure if it's obvious that Trump and his twitter birds are clouds?? I tried to make them puffy but still I don't think it communicates it well enough. This is something that I would definitely alter if I had to do this image again. I also don't really like how I've done Moby and how he's sitting, anatomically it looks wrong and he's too small to be the main focus of the piece. I think this image will need to have quite a few alterations. But, like the others, I do like the colour palette and will definitely be carrying on in this way. 

Moby (again) final

FINAL IMAGE!!

I am quite happy with how the final image came out. I like the colours more than anything else. I think just choosing three colours and forcing the content to work with that makes the image stronger as a whole. This is something that I took on board from doing the frank ocean artwork, but since then I think this is the only image I have created since then that the colours are as strong as. I'm not sure what it is about this image, but I'm not 100% happy with it. I think it's how I've painted the palm trees compared to the cloud and Moby because the palm trees are just shapes and moby and the cloud are slightly more detailed... This is something that I need to consider next time - if something is just shapes then stick to that, if it's more detailed then stick to that. 

Moby (Again) development

I wanted to have a few different outcomes for this brief so I could show Gerry my versatility as an editorial illustrator. Because the previous two didn't really show anything to do with Hollywood, I wanted this one to have (and quite clearly) the Hollywood sign in the image. I came to the idea of having the rain cloud to show Moby's feelings towards the place, initially with him being the cloud but now I think it would be better with him in the cloud. I want the rain to only be in one diagonal chunk over the Hollywood sign, again to try and emphasise his feelings towards it.

Moby Gifs

This is the final outcome I produced for my GIF version of the brief. I think I liked the idea of this more than the actual conviction. I don't know if it speaks enough about the reasons why Moby is annoyed, just at the fact that he is. 

I am happy that I gave GIFs a go because I don't think anyone else would have thought to make one (sorry that sounded way more harsh then I wanted it to). But I am hoping that this makes me stand out when Gerry comes to look at what we produced!

Rachel Maclean Exhibition

I managed to go to the Rachel Maclean exhibition that I found a few weeks ago when doing some artist research. It was only one smallish room but still glad that I checked it out.

There was just a few large images hanging on the wall with one of her videos playing on a projector. The space was painted with bright colours to match the colour scheme of her artwork. 

It was quite a trippy exhibition and my sister just didn't get it and walked out almost straight away... but I really like the concept, although maybe a bit too much for what I do (maybe a bit too fine art), it has definitely made me think about my own work. Colour scheme has always been very important to my work and making it relevant to my images, I think mine is a bit similar to what Maclean uses, the overly bright colours as a sugar coat to mask the social problems of the modern life. I also like how it's just so over the top to prove a point, and actually the room was pretty full so it worked, the bright colours and strange subjects seemed to entice people to come and see what it was all about. Maybe this is something I need to consider?????

Moby development - gifs?

I know it's a physical printed newspaper, but I thought it would be interesting to try and make a GIF as one of my outcomes for the new statesman brief. I've always been quite interested in GIFs and had made one a few weeks ago for my weekly affair brief. 

I took a bit of a different approach to the context of this outcome too by trying to combine one of Moby's songs to the brief. So I took inspiration from one of Moby's well known songs and GCSE music classic, 'why does my heart feel so bad'. I thought this was the most appropriate song, seeing as the article is about Moby feeling down about L.A. and the world. So...

WHY DOES MOBY'S HEART FEEL SO MAD?

Moby Final 1

This is my first final image that I came up with. I like how it looks like it's digital and can't tell that it has been painted. Although there's something that I just don't reallly like about this. I'm thinking that maybe it's because the writing on the tshirt is too high up, making it look a bit out of place? This is something I can redo, considering composition and maybe panning out more so more of his body is in the composition. But I do like the limited colour palette, similar to my Frank Ocean album cover, the simplified colours brings more focus to the context of the illustration, which I like. 

Development - Moby

I began with just drawing, not necessarily thinking about what was in the image but just drawing. I found this quite a successful way of getting threw that mind block, even if it doesn't seem relevant. But I was constantly drawing Moby in each image, firstly drawing him quite realistically so I can get an idea of his features before I simplify them and turn them more into a character.

But it wasn't him that I was struggling with, it was applying the context that the brief had given about how he's angsty about Trump and L.A. I didn't want to go down the obvious route and just draw a big Hollywood sign in the background. I also wanted it to be at least a bit funny, because that's how I put my stamp on things.

New Statesman - What's already out there?

I just quickly wanted to have a look at what kind of illustrations the New Statesman take on and if my work is suitable or adaptable for it. From looking at what is already out there, it seems like I should be okay, as it's very figurative like my work is. There's also a lot of spot illustration which again is similar to my work. But then I keep thinking why should I change my work to suit what's already out there? I don't want my work just to blend into what is in the industry now, I want people to be able to tell that I created the work. So I think that's maybe more of the viewpoint on how to approach this brief. 

Moby - Artwork research

I managed to find some of Moby's artwork on his website, before I clicked on it I thought it might inspire me and maybe be the kind of approach I could take on my work... and then I clicked on it and was a bit like... maybe he should just stick to music. I'm not too sure what's happening here, but I'm going to make an educated guess and say that he was probably off his face. 

Seeing as his artwork was such a lead balloon, I thought I should look at his album artwork instead as a visual aid to help my drawing process. I chose to post this particular album cover because I really like the limited colour palette and use of space. This is something that I'm definitely going to consider for my editorial piece, especially as for my frank ocean album cover I only used two colours (not including shades of) and considered space and I think that was the success of the piece. 

Moby - Research

Since all I know about Moby is that he is bald, I need to research into who he is and what he stands for to help me start drawing out some ideas for this brief.

INFORMATION!

- American DJ, singer, songwriter, musician, photographer

- Animal rights activist

- Well known for his electronic music, veganism, and support of animal rights

- Allmusic: "one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America"

- Moby created a vegan restaurant named Little Pine in Los Angeles that opened for business on November 20, 2015. Moby personally runs the restaurant

- Used to suffer from panic disorder (from taking LSD) and now openly helps fans who suffer from the same.

- Angsty about Trump

- lives by the Hollywood sign but resents the people that live there.

I think this amount of knowledge about Moby should be enough for me to start drawing up ideas for the editorial piece. I need to focus mainly on what information the brief has given me - angsty about trump and the kind of people in L.A. He also needs to be the main focus in the image. I need to start drawing. 

New Statesman brief

2) We've done an interview with Moby who wouldn't let us photograph him. He's all angst-ridden about Trump. He lives in the Hollywood hills, just under the famous sign but is quite disparaging about the place and kind of people who live there. The space is the same as the other one: 188mm wide x 178mm high.’

This new statesman brief is a great opportunity for me to show someone in the industry the kind of work that I produce and for me to get an understanding of what they expect from the illustrator. I've decided just to do the one brief and create multiple outcomes from it, to show that my different approaches I have towards the same brief. I chose the Moby brief over the WW2 brief because it just appealed to me a lot more, but I will NOT BE DOING DONALD TRUMP because I really don't want to be known for doing him. I want to focus more on Moby and living in Hollywood. Problem is I know almost nothing about Moby, which I suppose isn't a bad thing, because if I were to do editorial work in the future I wouldn't necessarily know the subject. 

Overall I am excited for this brief, and hope I can turn it around quite quickly!

Major Brief

Frank Ocean - Solo FINAL IMAGE

Frank Ocean - Solo

"I'm dirty dancing by myself"

This is my final outcome for my secret7 replacement brief for the song Solo by Frank Ocean. I am quite pleased with what I produced, because I think it clearly shows my context of having Frank Ocean swan lifting Frank Ocean to represent the lyric 'I'm dirty dancing by myself'. I also like the use of the two colours, this is something which I want to apply more in my work. Having a really limited colour palette forces you to think more about where and how to paint, considering light and dark and how best to show form of the figure. 

Although I think the figures could be better. I don't think he really looks like Frank Ocean, but I think that maybe this isn't a massive problem because the two figures look like the same person which is more important. I also think the sea could have painted better, but I think it doesn't ruin the understanding of what it is (you can tell it's meant to be the water so I suppose that's more important).

Illustration 12" - development

So I drew out the famous swan lift scene from Dirty Dancing and Frank Oceans face from different angles so I can get a better understanding of how to draw him in this dirty dancing scene. 

When it comes to colour, I thought of doing orange and green. This is because his first album is called channel orange and his hair is green on the front cover of Blonde, so ties together his only albums. They also work well together as colour combination, so should come together well. 

Illustration 12" - Looking at lyrics

I thought the best way to get a subject matter from this song is looking at the lyrics and turning the words into images. I think this song was quite a good choice because everything is so visual but in a metaphoric way. What I liked the most was:

"I'm dirty dancing by myself"

"There's a bull and a matador duelling in the sky"

"Baby momma aint so vicious, all she want is her picket fence"

My first thoughts when I saw dirty dancing by myself was that I could literally do that, have Frank Ocean dirty dancing by himself (swan lifting himself? or another famous scene). So this is representative of my practice because I always add satire to my work and means it can be figurative. 

Illustration 12" - Replacement brief

Album covers isn't really what I want to go into in the future for my work, but thought I could apply my figurative skills and passion to satire to this context. Also Frank Ocean is one of my favourite artists and when I saw one of his songs was on the list I had to do it. Although maybe it's harder if I already know and love the song, but I will accept the challenge!

I started of by listening to the song and picking out words that jumped out at me, getting the general mood that the song gives off. It made me feel quite up and down, saying that he feels really low then seems to be fine again and just gets high, again. So I don't think it's necessarily a sad song, so don't think that's the direction I should go in. I think I'll just approach it how I usually would, but not going to take the piss as much as I usually would, maybe just a little bit. 

Survey thoughts on results

Q.2 Where do you currently get your news from?

My thoughts - Most people said they got their news online, and none at all said newspaper or magazine. This has surprised me. I thought there would be more saying that they got their news from a more physical source. This has made me think that my work should maybe be more online if that's where my generation are looking at to get their news. Or maybe I could go the other way, and produce physical products for news to become more engaging? 

Q.3 Which topics in the news are you most interested in?

My thoughts - Entertainment & Arts and Politics were the most popular topics of interest. Although I'm not sure if I should strictly stick to politics because this is what I've been focusing on maybe for a bit too long. So maybe more social issues or interests is better, especially as entertainment & arts was the most popular. 

Q.4 One a scale from 1(being least) to 10 (being most) how engaging do you find the sources that you get your news from?

My thoughts - 7 was the average score on this question. I personally don't find the news that engaging, only on social media really. This was said by a few others on the next question, so I think this does need to be addressed. 

Q.5 Do you feel like the news speaks to the people in your generation? Why?

My thoughts - More people said no rather than yes to this question. Most of the YES answers said it was because of social media that made it appealing or online in general. The NO answers generally say that they over complicate it making it hard to understand. So this has made me think how I can put my work on social media as this seems to be a successful platforms for young people and try and make it as simplistic as I can for everyone to understand. 

Q. 6 Which subject matters do you think aren't covered enough in the news? Why?

My thoughts - Non-western countries, the art industry and mental health were the three biggest subject matters which people thought aren't covered enough in the news. These three topics could be themes that I could use to make me stand out from other news sources. 

Q.7 Do you feel it is important for your generation to get involved in current affairs? Why?

My thoughts - All but two people said yes to this statement and to be honest I'm surprised that not everyone said yes because I can't understand how someone can't think that it's important for us to get involved! But I asked this question just to make sure that people do want to know about current affairs and I wasn't doing something that no one would be interested in. 

OVERALL 

I'm glad that I did this survey, I feel like I now have a better understanding of where my work could go and the subject matters I can start exploring. Also I know that my generation are interested in learning and understanding what is happening, and that's very reassuring. 

Survey Results

Participants - 27

(29 but two answers were unusable due to irrelevant content)

What is your gender?

Female - 17

Male - 10

Where do you currently get your news from?

Online - 21

Newspapers - 0

Magazines - 0

TV - 3

Friends/Family - 1

Not interested - 0

Other - Twitter,  Reddit, Radio - 3

Which topics in the news are you most interested in?

Business - 4

Politics - 17

Technology - 9

Science - 9

Health - 9

Education - 10

Entertainment & Arts - 20

Other - Fashion, Celebrity/TV Gossip - 2

One a scale from 1(being least) to 10 (being most) how engaging do you find the sources that you get your news from?

Average Number - 7 

Do you feel like the news speaks to the people in your generation? Why?

No answers - 16

> Not engaging enough

> Critique generations style of activism

> Trying to engage our generation by using memes and 'slang' so comes across as trying too hard.

> Apart from social media, the news isn't aimed at my generation.

> Generally not, particularly politics. 

> They try, clickbaits and videos on fb so you're just spoonfed news, not very healthy. 

> I feel like the news is targeted at an older audience, not engaging. 

> The language/jargon used within mainstream news channels isn't always easy to digest, making it hard to understand, and why stuff like Brexit happened. 

> No - because it's filtered 

> No, it's catered to people with the like mindest of Rupert Murdoch.

> I never feel as if news articles disclose how problems/changes etc will affect me or the society I live in

> Unnecessarily complicates political issues and news stories and this alienates people in my generation from being more engaged

> Sources such as the BBC are speaking to an increasingly narrow post-Brexit audience

>  Local BBC radio station often aims their news stories towards an older generation.

> I feel that it could be better in explaining some confusing issues to younger people

> Most people of my generation struggle to engage with the news because of the people who predominately write it- white, middle aged men

> dont go into depth to talk to those involved and get an in depth coverage

Yes answers - 10

> Yes - It is a generation accustomed to 24 hour news, and dependent on it.

> More so than previously

> For me, it depends on the site/locality of the news and the audience they're aiming for. A website like Vice is trying to aim towards a younger audience

> Yes.

> Some of it does - news posted on social media seems to be more directed to people in our generation.

> Yes. i think for my generation, as with many before, even if people don't want it to, news speaks to everyone to some extent as its inescapable: a radio on in the background, newspaper front pages in the shop, facebook, small talk, overheard small talk etc.  Like it or loathe it, everybody's creating their own opinions about news stories they vaguely know something about, even if they don't really want to care about any of it... its just human nature
> Online does, Twitter etc mean you can choose the news you access

> Through the internet it definitely does. Young people are actually taking an interest in what's going on in the world now that news is more accessible

> Yes, as we are the ones who are part of a changing society, in our attitudes and how we want things to be run. We are the most likely to experience the effects of the recent changes most directly because of our age group, so the news would always concern us in some way.

> I think our generation are a lot more involved with news because of social media platforms spreading it, so whether or not people want to hear about it they are doing

Which subject matters do you think aren't covered enough in the news? Why?

> Non-western countries/Countries not associated with ours - 6

> Arts industry - 4

> Scientific discoveries and technological advancements.

> The environment - 2

> Positive news

> Healthcare and poverty

> Specific financial or political terms 

> Race 

> Non-professional sports

> Academia

> Modern slavery and human trafficking

> Science and Religion - 2

> Parenting

> Mental Health - 4

> Education (specifically student fees)

Do you feel it is important for your generation to get involved in current affairs? Why?

Yes - 24

No - 2

Waterstones research

Similar to what I had been looking at in COP3, I thought that I should go to Waterstones to see what kind of merchandise goes with children books. Although I have no interest in children's books, the style of the publications I create are the same layout and are satire versions of childrens books. So thought it might link well to create similar products. I was very surprised to see the amount of what comes from such a small book... anything you could think of was adapted to have the bfg on it, no matter how irrelevant.  I think I could do this too, applying my work to as many products as possible.

Survey?

What social issues are there that's relevant to my age group?? THAT ISN'T ABOUT DONALD TRUMP
I think I need to put out a survey to 18-25 year olds and see what they care about the most so I have a better idea of the context of the work I need to start producing more of. This could lead to creating a publication on a certain topic - in turn making a series??

I want to produce illustrations with current affairs that are important and relevant to people in my age group (18-25). This survey will help me to get a better understanding of what people feel most passionate or maybe want to learn more about but feel like there's nothing out there to help their understanding.
What do I think we care about or maybe is the most relevant to my age group?

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SJMRCMJ

I hope people actually complete the survey so I can start getting themes together as soon as possible!

Rachel Maclean

Rachel Maclean is a Scottish fine artist who uses film and photography to create strange worlds and scenarios that represent social and political issues. Although I have no interest in her media choice, I am of her context and her approach to it. Everything seems to be drenched in irony and satire, which I would have thought would be a bit too much, but I think it works. Maybe I need to be more out there with my work to really engage people, especially as I want to target my work towards younger people. This also reminds me of Black Mirror, using metaphors and symbols to show social issues. I think this is what I want to get into for my FMP.

I've just seen that her exhibition is at the Tate Briton and its FREE! I'm going home in two weeks time so I'm going to go and check it out!

George Grosz

George Grosz is a german caricature artist, who's work depicts the life of 1920s Berlin. What I like this most about his work is that it doesn't hold back the truths of what was happening at the time, nothing seems to be sugar coated. This is similar to my own work, as I don't really hold back or feel like I don't want to offend anyone... I also like how erratic his work is, creating a great sense of the  atmosphere. Although this is something that I struggle with a lot (composition) and where spot illustration works better for me. 

J.G Posada

Jose Guadalupe Posada is a Mexican political printmaker who was heavily influential to many latin american artists and cartoonists. He used satire to make his audience socially aware of what was going on in the world of politics. Instead of depicting politicians to their likeness, he used skulls, bones and calaveras to represent the figures. This is something which has made me think. I need to look into semiotics so instead of me drawing someone so everyone knows exactly who it is, I can use symbols or certain objects to represent people. 

I think it's also inspiring to see how an illustrator in the 1900s can be so influential, to the extent that I can be in a random bar in Berlin and this will be on the wall...

Tutorial Feedback 3/02/17

>Look at doing secret 7/Illustrator 12 briefs
>My work is figurative - people out of place, funny - this needs to be/should be my approach to a brief.
>Education into social ideas - use irony, satire (like COP3 practical) -look into artists like Rachel Maclean - RESEARCH INTO THIS
> Do I construct my own narrative? Or take existing?
> Artists/References - J.G Posada, George Grosz, (unsure of other two) - but look at revolutions, what political work was out there at a time of censorship/dictatorship.
> REMEMBER - Portfolio is 15-25 images

I feel better about my work after having a tutorial. I was slightly unsure of what briefs to do because I didn't feel like I could relate my work and my interests to many of them. It's also made me think that I need to start looking at other subject matter or I'm going to get bored of the work that I'm producing and so start producing less of it. Now I need to start researching for the secret 7 brief as well as what I want to do for my FMP.

Learning new skills

After wanting to throw clay for years now, I finally managed to go down to ceramics and give it a go! I did some ceramics last year for 505 but I didn't really go any further with it. Although I'm not sure that I can put ceramic pots in with my work, it's something which is nice to do as a side project to keep me a little more sane.

Now I know (kind of anyway) how to use the equipment I hope I will be able to go down again and maybe even be able to sell some to help with my overdraft pit of doom. I also wanted to make the most of what the uni has to offer, seeing as I'm only going to be here for a few more months I need to make the most of all the facilities!

Rationale REMASTERED

On reflection of my previous modules and what subjects I enjoyed and excelled in the most, I would like to explore a combination of editorial and publication. Editorial is what I have been exploring at the start of this module and publication is an interest stemming from COP3. I also think that if I want to go into editorial, then the best kind of briefs for me would be quick turn around briefs as this would be similar to the line of work I’m interested in, making good practice. Regarding context, I want my illustrations to be informative and possibly educational to people in my age group (18-25) who may not have an interest in current affairs.

I want this module to keep me drawing and be an active illustrator rather than having to create work every now and again. I want to be pushed by deadlines and specifications to get me to the highest point I can be as an illustrator.