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This has been another really beneficial term in me developing and improving my working practice. I started the term with ways I’d like to work; expressive, experiential and more organised – all of which I have tried to do to the best of my ability. Like any project I think I could have done even more with if I’d have had more time but am definitely happy with my body of work and outcome.
Over the past 2 days at uni, we were put into random pairs and given the task to respond to a word between the two of us and present final illustrations for it today (Friday).
Initially I thought this was going to go badly as both me and my partner have very different styles and approaches to doing work, and I don’t even think I have a set ‘style’ in this point in the course: I seem to try something different for every project!
Anyway, our word was ‘protection’ and we chose to interpret this through drugs: the protection people feel when they take more drugs and painkillers and thinking they’re ‘protecting’ their bodies but actually harming them and becoming addicted.
To combine our ‘styles’ of our work, I created some patterns and imagery of pills in vibrant colours using oil pastels, which we then scanned into photoshop and combined with my partners drawings of faces to create 3 portrait-like illustrations around this theme of false protection: the charcater slowly becoming more ill and less protected.
Over the Easter holidays I set myself the task of designing and illustrating my own Easter Cards! I kept them quite simple, using oil pastel to create different coloured patterned eggs.
