Rationale Workshop

5 things I want to make

• Patterns
• Screen prints (paper and textile)
• Work that I am proud of. 
• Professional/sellable final products. 
• Good drawings. 

5 practical skills I want to develop

• Pattern design/layout
• Photoshop skills
• Screen printing 
• Book binding 
• Preparing my work for pitching/presentation. 

5 disciplines I want to explore

• Analogue printmaking
• Textiles - print designs 
• Product and packaging
• Drawing 
• Exhibiting

5 practitioners or people in the creative industry who inspire me

• Julia Rothman 
• Leah Goren 
• Lee John Phillips
• Jamie Mitchell and Mark Callaby - founders of Ohh Deer
• Susie Wright

5 things I want to find out

• How to promote my work effectively 
• How to produce a high quality screen print
• What I really enjoy drawing 
• Where and how to get my work printed onto products
• How to conduct myself professionally over email. 

5 things I never want to do again

• Animation, after effects and stop motion
• Vector illustration 
• Life's a pitch 
• Linocut printing
• Typography and layout - I would prefer a graphic designer with specialist knowledge to do this. 

5 places I want to visit 

• Yorkshire dales
• London (exhibitions)
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• The countryside in general
• The library

Summarising... 5 things I want and need. 

TASK: I want to ... because ... this means I will be able to...

I want to make work that I am proud of because then I will be able to talk about it with confidence and believe it is worth something. This means I will be able to be more professional in my approach to my own work when talking to other people about it and I will have a more positive attitude towards my practice as a whole which is really important. 

I need to be making professional quality, sellable products because I need a strong body of work/portfolio behind me for when I leave my final year of formal education. This means I will be able to enter the working world with a clear collection of work which really highlights what I am good at and that I can produce professional work. 

I need to explore paper and textile applications of my work because I don't just want my work to appear in two dimensional print formats. This means I will be able to understand more about how and where I really see my work existing in the market and I can figure out what companies, agencies and people I should be making contact with in relation to this. 

I want to stick to analogue drawing processes this year because I have learnt from experience that I really struggle with the process of drawing digitally, especially with vectors. Avoiding this will allow me to develop my basic drawing skills further and start to really understand how I work best and what drawing materials and processes work well for me. 

I need to develop my Photoshop skills for editing scanned imagery created with analogue processes and for making patterns because pattern is something I have a keen interest in at the moment. This will allow me to produce professional quality outcomes effectively.