Just a small blog post to talk about my final thoughts about YCN brief. Although I liked the character design element to this brief, it was a very hard brief for me to do. It's taught me that I prefer briefs that are very particular, with an intended outcome and with strict guidelines as to what size images to submit. I think it would have been better to attempt the Penguin Brief this year (even though I was really not keen on the book choices) because Penguin have very regimented views on how to submit and they outline very clearly what they are after.
With the YCN brief it was very broad, but too broad. I spoke to tutors and they agreed that sometimes YCN has the tendency to be like that as it is more for those companies to get work for free rather than actually valuing a students artistic skills.
For me, what I'm taking from this brief is that if said guidelines dont exist, I need to set them for myself. So if there isn't a guideline to size, colour palette or intention, I need to adjust the brief to myself so that there is. I don't dislike the work I made for this project because I think it has moved me closer towards knowing exactly what I want to do illustration wise, but I don't like the outcomes from this project.
I do however really like using gouache, and I've only ever used it in a line drawing sense before I think that it's something I might keep using. I'd like to further my skills with it.
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