I like to work visually, and a large part of my professional work involves helping people to visualise their work. For this exercise, I thought I should take my own medicine so created a simple kanban task board in my studio to help track all the work that I need, or want, to accomplish.
But I do appreciate that this 'visual' approach isn't what the exercise brief is calling for. In taking stock I had a good chance to think about what I have taken away from this module, and where I would like my practice to go. I also know that I can't do everything in the time allowed, so I need to be selective. In the end, I have decided that I would like to use the final assignment to:
Practice fundamentals of colour and light
Work with narrative and sequence
Use words with my pictures
Make mistakes and move on
Draw figures and expression
Experiment with gouache
Put more of myself into my sketchbook
Steak and tweak from other artists
Instead of just drawing these on a sheet or a random page in my sketchbook, I decided to create a small dedicated book instead. The sense that I got from the brief was that I needed to select what to weave through my assignment sketchbook as a representation of how far I have come, and also where I will go.
So I thought it might be fun to create a book that represented that woven nature. Using a page of bristol board I used contrasting acrylic paint to create a pattern on both sides of the paper. I then folded, cut and fixed it into place. Then I went about adding some spot illustrations to each of the views. I made a bit of a mistake getting the folds in the right order, so I had to improvise and re-order. I suppose I am putting one of my goals into practice already!
I worked quickly and without being precious - it is a sketchbook after all and I was having fun. I used a combination of a blue POSCA marker and a black brush pen. It still felt a little flat, so I experimented using an orange highlighter as an accent colour. I think it went pretty well.
Normally I would scan in my work to show in my learning log but in this case, the physicality of the mini sketchbook is integral. So I have created a little video to demonstrate the sketchbook:
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