Reflective Journal

A brief review of my work so far

Although I have been drawing non stop since September, my work I feel doesn't reflect the best of what I can do. I've struggled a lot this year with personal circumstances, that I was hoping to get support for from other family/friends but didn't. I feel this has greatly impacted on my work.

However, I spent a lot of time on just a few certain pieces which I feel took me far too long to do like making my map and drawing the cards I created for my work. I spent a week on my map and longer making the cards.

Also following feedback regarding the work I'd done...I had initially gone for a stylized approach to my work feeling it would be much more fun to draw. I was told my anatomy was off (which was true especially with the portraits) and was advised to follow a style that leaned a little more towards realism. 
Which I did, I went back through all my work I had drawn up until the beginning of November and I re-did some of it in a much more realistic style. 

Although I much preferred the look of my new work, having based faces off of various models etc, I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much and became quickly disheartened and bored with what I was doing...In the end I didn't find my work has fun to do as I had been, and I know when you're working on a project it isn't necessarily always going to be fun or interesting, I specifically picked a fantasy world to work on for that reason, as although it's work for university, it's still a personal project I've chosen to undertake.

I also became, very hyper critical of what I was doing and reached burnout very quickly. I started drawing everything traditionally rather than digitally as it allowed for more speed and more drawing time, I found where I was becoming uninterested in what I was doing that my speed with digital drawing dropped dramatically and I was spending days painting a single view of a portrait turnaround instead of producing multiple pieces of work a day.

So I switched to pencil drawings, pulling a lot of inspiration and help from poses/ anatomy resources recommended to me by my lecturers, and I wish that I had transferred stuff back into digital before the submission but I didn't even think of it until after I had handed in all my work.

All in all, I feel my work is OK, but I'm giving myself some time off over the holidays and then before carrying on in January I will go over what I've done, rethink about it and decide on a new and hopefully better course of action. 

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