Saturday, 14 May 2016

Vague Presentation Script


Introduce self: Hello I’m Amber I’m a kooky creative, eyebrow enthusiast and village witch. 

Let’s start off with some high points of the year, I actually found responsive one of the most helpful modules of the year as I got to try out a few different things rather than focusing a lot of time on one project. As well as helping me work to tighter deadlines I learned a lot of new things via the brief’s I did.
I really enjoyed doing the A Clockwork Orange book cover. Book covers are not really something I’d considered but I was interested none-the less and it’s something I ended up being really happy with and has inspired me to do more work with book covers in the future.
I learned a lot about mockups in responsive and I find it really rewarding to see what my work would look like as a finished product.
My substantial brief for responsive was the D&AD shutterstock brief where you had to illustrate 3/7 story archetypes and relate them to everyday life here are two. – The quest for coffee and the tragedy of messing up your makeup in the morning. I enjoyed this brief because it was really open and amongst a module where I primarily made imagery that would be on a product  It gave me a chance to just focus on my practice – as during 504 I found that I quite enjoy working with lino. So here I could experiment with lino and digitally adding texture, colour etc. This is some of the work I;ve been most happy with,

I didn’t know anything about pattern at the beginning of the year, and only ended up doing it because I had to learn how to make pattern for my responsive collaborative project. Here are two of the first patterns I made this year, they aren’t so great. I didn’t know what I was doing. But since then I have really enjoyed making patterns and have basically made a repeat pattern in all my other modules too just to satisfy my own desire to make pattern/

I found COP much harder than I did last year. I’m not sure why though. I had a really hard time writing the essay and narrowing down my mass of ideas into a focused question. Nevertheless the publication I made for COP had a good idea behind it (explain idea briefly). I am starting to find that I work better with a solid maybe meaningful idea. And I still love injecting a bit of humour into most of my work as it’s one of my greatest assets. My crafting however does still need work.

Outside of college I have had a small stall selling prints and badges at the Belgrave Arts market a couple of times. This is good for a confidence boost as I have had a couple of sales. Kids love the badges. Makeshift business cards.
I also am president of the comic society when I find time to put it on. This has helped me become a bit more confident in speaking to people and almost leading a group, as well as communicating with people outside of the college about stuff. – Next year I hope to be able to organise my time better so I can do more stuff with the society and be a good president.
Leading me onto my next point. My time management is awful, it started off okay for 504 but everything else has been totally terrible. I have never handed in something late but I definitely am sabotaging myself by not actually giving myself enough time to finish a project to the standard that I want. Time management impacts quality. I am an awful procrastinator and find it really hard to plan my time. I should have done it already but due to my aforementioned time management problems I have not, I will be going to learning support to help me manage my time better over summer and into level 6.
Another weakness has been my inability to narrow down ANYTHING which gets me into all sorts of trouble. I start projects late because I can’t choose a focused topic to do. For example 505 (space / greek mythology mess with products – If I had chosen to go with my gut I would have known  what I was doing from the get go)  - some more stuff about how 505 was a total shambles for me.
Moving on – I keep feeling as if I don’t really have a style so I decided to reflect on what’s working well in my current and past work. Thinking about my favourite thing from last year, similarities between this and current work – Black background, bright contrasting COLOUR, good use of shape and texture. I decided I wanted to capitalise on what’s working well and try and make some more pieces in a similar style – so I did this for my creative presence. I found I really enjoy this technique and style – papercut, not as bad as I thought it was etc.
Managed to make some good imagery that was transferrable from artwork to business card, to pattern, to social media. Little critique of using image of my face with ever changing appearance – explain reason for using this.
I am indeed using social media – facebook, Instagram, tumblr. Keeping personal and professional separate because I’m a terrible person. Aesthetic. Easy sharing. Tags etc.
Made some tote back mockups as sellable merchandise ideas.

Next Year: I’m feeling good about next year. Had a lot of realisations quite late this year but better late than never. Want to do more book covers, posters – shows, films, bands, carry on experimenting with this style I’m working on. Make more patterns. Manage my damn time.
The most important thing I’ve learned

Thanks n goodbye. 

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