Yesterday I had a workshop session, and was given feedback on my work so far, it was suggested to me that I needed to find more traditional artists to find inspiration from and sometimes it isn't thought of as a good idea to search for new/contemporary illustrators, as your style could become like theirs, which usually tends to be identical to hundred of other people's styles, which okay, yes, fair enough. It's a good point. But I was struggling at the beginning of this project, and even slightly further into it. So I was given the advice to have a look at some other illustrators, just to give me some inspiration, I did that. And it worked. Made me feel motivated. I, myself don't believe it to be copying anyone's style really, because that is not my aim, I am still finding it, and still learning.
I also showed my Photoshop trials of my hand. I wanted to put my illustration through photoshop just to see what it would look like as a silhoutte, you know, would it be recognisable as a hand? would it blend in too much? would it just turn out like a blob? I just wanted to see, and it was a form of experimentation and development. I feel that a conclusion was jumped to before I got a chance to explain that these were for development, and not necessarily for the final outcome, I have mentioned on the blog how I prefer my hands to stay as a hand drawn illustration, even though they will be scanned in, I still want that illustrative element in there. I wish that I had been given more of a chance to explain. I understand I wasn't being got at, it was just advice at the end of the day. However, I did say that I wanted to use an element of photoshop within my work, I just wanted to try it, I hardly ever use it really, but i thought that the idea of having a basic silhouette with all this colour flowing and exploding from it would be a really good visual image, the contrast of colour against the black, Yes, it might be a bit of a clash, but that is why I am still working on the colour palettes within it. But yes, my colours, I want to put on with pencils, paints, etc. I don't want my whole piece to be Photoshopped, I just want to use a part of it, I don't understand why such a deal had to be made. I am not totally succumbing to the whole magical world that is considered around the software, I am literally learning, I just wanted to see what I could create, I don't think that's wrong, I think that it's part of development overall when it comes to finding my illustrative style. after all I am still learning! I am on a design course!
It was also suggested to me to create my colours and my "music" on a bigger scale compared to my building/hand silhouettes, my tutor said that it would be great to see all of those colours "growing" away from them, which I agree with, I would like to see what it would look like having all the "music" coming away from my shadows, spreading widely. So I;m going to be doing a few more experimentations!
