In response to illustrated facts weekly brief...
Maybe spend a bit longer on each one, especially with the roughing and drawing stage. Think about adding an element of character to my animal imagery, it doesn’t have to become ‘cartoony’ but adding some character might make the images more appropriate for other applications too like greetings cards. It may be how I get my personality into the images.
Think about using this as preliminary work for the Batsford Prize, the theme this year is ‘interpreting nature’ which fits with my subject matter.
Whats sets my work apart from other people?
In relation to christmas card brief…
Think about ranges throughout the year. You would normally be making christmas cards a lot earlier in the year than this, or even the year before. I could even make different ranges of cards for this year following different themes, using a motif as a starting point for each set.
Teresa pointed out some websites and practitioners that might be of interest to me.
Kerry Lemon
Jennifer Nelson
smartcreativewomen.com - podcasts.
Spoon flower and citrus rain for fabric printing.
The Design Trust.
Afterwards I had a quick chat with Ben about my work. He really liked how I was using colour and saw an improvement from my work last year. I did think that using adobe kuler as my way of bringing a solid colour scheme together was maybe a bit of a cop out but he assured me that there is nothing wrong with doing this and it seems to be working! Maybe colour is what's missing from my illustrated facts series. I had included in the brief that I should only be using black media, specifically ink. However, maybe when I take these into screen print eventually, I will be more inclined to play around with colour rather than stick to a monochrome palette.
Ben also told me about U Studio (previously urban graphic) which is a really good reference to have. Not only can I use this to find illustrators with similar practices to my own but it will also be good for looking at trends and seeing what sells. They ming to be good to get in contact with to ask for advice or even showing them some of my work, they seem to have a very open approach.
Overall today has been really good as I have managed to get some good feedback on my work and some pointers of what I can be looking at online. I think the Batsford Prize is a no brainer as I will already have a body of work to tweak to make it appropriate for submission to this. I am also looking forward to listening to some of the podcasts on smartcreativewomen.com, it will be good to hear about individual experiences and opinions of the industry.
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