Visual Journal - Part One

Today we had our first peer review session for ‘About the Author’ brief, - our aim was to inform our peers about our author, our interests about their life, their work, their passions, and how we have begun to visually respond in our sketchbooks.

- So far i have been enjoying drawing about my author.

- i have picked up on continuous themes present throughout the book.

loneliness
feeling trapped
control
isolation
transformation
escape
loosing yourself - becoming someone new.
- exploring different ways of representing these kind of emotions - trying to take a less obvious approach.
- don't be lazy - really consider what I'm trying to portray.

- At this point i don't really feel like we've had much of a chance to really get stuck into visualising our research - but even in this early stage, i enjoy talking to my peers. - its easy to feel lost with so much of the module ahead; it was encouraging that the little visual work i had done so far had a positive response. - useful to talk about potential ideas - where we could each take the project next.

It will be interesting to see how i approach this brief compared to past modules. The longer time period will perhaps encourage me to work out of my comfort zone and explore new process without the worry of things going wrong and not meeting the deadline. I feel that other briefs moved so quickly at times that i’ve held back on trying new processes, or not experimenting enough, through fear of not getting work finished on time. i do feel that there have been missed opportunities and wish i had taken more risks with my work, and so i am glad that this module aims to really push the process and production side of things,- which i aim to do.

A selection of initial drawings;