Think about a technique, process, approach, or way of thinking that feels central to your illustration practice - something you enjoy and feel confident sharing. Now imagine that you’ve been asked to run a short, one-off workshop for a small group (in person or online). Identify your focus (which could be a drawing process, a material, an idea or theme, etc.) and ask yourself: What would you like to teach or explore? Who will attend the workshop? Are they beginners, young or

For this assignment, I must produce my own personal creative manifesto to highlight what I'm comfortable with working on or with, and where my personal boundaries could be crossed. Most of my work is narrative-driven and the subjects are usually fictional, I have worked on sensitive topics within fictional work for story-telling and awareness. I enjoy creating stories/artwork that reflect some of my values and thoughts but I should also be open to creating a space where peopl

For this exercise, I had to calculate and produce a project timeline for a hypothetical project, the aim of this was to gather an idea of how long a project will take to complete; going into this with the (again) hypothetical situation of being commissioned to create said project. In my hypothetical project, I am being asked to create a 120-page Graphic Novel; and in this instance I'm making time for mental well-being, time off and basic human rights for working. I'll aim to

Reflection From my notes, my own thoughts on working with others is that I need to overcome a lot of anxieties that I have, whether its for collaboration, networking, finding and communicating with audiences; it's all so important to do all of these, half of the art is the people who interact with it.

Critical Review Note Going into what I'm thinking of doing for my critical review that is added to the credit at the end of this unit, I feel an interest to explore a video essay. Either looking into book cover designs, board/roleplay game design. Brief This assignment is to capture different audiences through my artwork through the development of different engagement types. What this means for this assignment is taking my previous work that I used for Assignment 1 (Self-Dire

Working off of the previous research task, I had to create thumbnails for The Batsford Prize Competition that went with the theme 'Connections'. At first I created small thought sketches and writings, just something small before I got started and I created a board for source material, or my mood board. Mood Board Small thoughts I usually don't use writing for exploration, just drawing, but I felt the need to since I want to take these projects more seriously and its really in

For this research task, I had to explore several competitions for illustrators and artists a like, and gain an understanding of approaching a brief or working alongside other artists. Moving through this task, I explored the variety of competition sites and narrowed down which appealed to me more, choosing them based of what I am working towards in a career. The common theme running through them all is that it involves some element of storytelling, whether its telling a child

Brief Following on from project 1, and referring to your portfolio assignment and reflection on your ‘golden thread’, consider who you want to talk to. You could make sketches or thumbnails of each of the following questions and connect them with flowing lines as in the illustration above, or you could create a comics page with each question represented in each panel. Ask yourself: What am I talking about or trying to say? Who am I trying to say it to? Who do I want to speak

For this assignment I was given a very open brief with the words ' You Are Now! ', the are plenty of directions I could go down with this simple brief and I can do it in many ways- such as a fanzine, an artist's books, a comic, a series of posters, an animation, the choices are endless... Considering how much there is I could explore I wanted to remember what my last two exercises taught me. I understand now that I find narrative/story in art extremely appealing and works bes

This illustration was designed to promote a local event, the brief intended that I use entirely paper collage-- however, I used digital to improve the overall look. The feedback was that the design wasn't true to the paper craft, and it seemed a little ordinary. I too was unhappy with how it turned out and didn't think to redo the design. I was uncomfortable with the medium since I hadn't had much experience with collaging-- I tried once before but wasn't very happy with it.

For this exercise, I had to revisit some pieces that I created in the previous unit and reflect (with the abstraction technique), to find what is common throughout each piece-- my 'golden thread'. I wanted to show awareness and express how we can help our oceans, I would like to influence people to implement positive changes to their lives to help our oceans and wildlife. Not enough is being done and it's important to educate ourselves on the planet we call home. I made the w

Looking and reading through ' The Enterprise Hub ', I reflected throughout how this would influence my artwork and goals for these next units and eventual career progression. I would need to keep referencing this Hub to fully grasp what area I want to work in, whether I work with people or not for certain projects, or what type of audience I aim for. After reading, I find myself inspired and intrigued at the idea of working with other people, most line of work that I am drawn