PROGRESS TUTORIAL
I had a progress tutorial with Theresa before and when we were talking about my work she asked me why I was working so small. This is something that has come up a few times throughout the project and has been spoken about a few times in first year. I have always felt most comfortable working to a A5 format and a lot of my scamps tend to be small even when I do have A4 books. I also often use ink in my initial drawings and I never really need a sketchbook bigger.
In the tutorial Theresa suggested buying a new sketchbook as I've been really struggling to produce work that reflects my author in my current A5 sketchbook.
KEY POINT
Since buying a A3 sketchbook (I didn't think A4 was enough to push me) my work has really been coming out easier so to speak. I've found the extra space good to help me push my work. This is one of the key points in this projects development, it's already changing my work so much already. I've had the chance to work with paint and a little bit with layering.
When I spoke to Ben later (like a week or so) he said that the way I was working in my big sketchbook was 'archaic' in comparison to my smaller book, which in a way I suppose it is. Gluing things in is very old school but it's helping me to produce pieces of work and its helping me organise my mind by sticking in different colours and shapes next to each other so i think that maybe being old school for this project is going to work out better (being as working my normal way clearly isn't helping me)
LIKES
That having more space has allowed me to experiment with overlaying objects
have more space to stick in things
I can paint big pieces
Finally feels like I'm getting somewhere with making stuff.
DISLIKES
It's harder to carry around and stuff keeps falling out so I'm gonna have to figure out how to fix that
PLAN
Carry on making work until something I actually crops up
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