image - feedback and crits

Image, crits and feedback.

We started the lesson looking round at what the other class had done again, some really nice work done this week by some people, looked really nice and crisp all printed properly on A1. Some people had been more adventurous with their printing and used techniques such as lazer cutting and screen printing which really finished off their designs nicely.
I was quite pleased feedback from my outcomes, even though with an essay deadline earlier on in the week i only had time to finish one of the outcomes off the 100%.
Feedback;

-try different print methods with outcome to make the designs really stand out.

-finish off unfinished outcomes and see how well they would work printed.

-experiment more with outcome to really push the final product.

Image - feedback and analysis.

Image, crits and feedback.

At the start of the lesson we all took our image work and had a look round at what everyone had done to see how others had tackled the brief, then we all separated into small groups to talk through what we had done and received some feedback.

Overall i was happy with what i had done and it seemed to go down quite well with everyone else in the class. One thing which came across from my crit is how with the white backdrop on the illustrations dont really fit in with the article, kind of makes the illustration look like it's missing something with the contrast between the white page and white background. This is something i picked up on before printing the images however didnt have enough time to add a background before the lesson but it something i will definitely look at.

Another thing which cropped up was on the 'billions' article i should of really put the queens head on the coin to make it look more like a coin because it is hard to really understand the concept straight away.

Enterprise task 5 - PROPOSED POSITION STATEMENT

'Write 10 short but informative statements that identify your distinctive ‘positioning’ as a Graphic Designer. Your statements should consider your ambitions, skills and areas of creative interest in relation to the market, your clients, competition and possible collaborators and should be based on the information that you have collected in response to the set tasks.

You will need to compare a list of your skills and services against customer/client needs to those of yourcompetitors, this should help you determine how your company is unique.'

My positioning as a Graphic designer... well illustrator.

Hopefully when i come out of my degree i will have the skills and ideas ready be successful within the sort of design work which i wish to create. My ultimate ambition in life work wise would be to be a successful illustrator, that being mainly freelance work, setting up a website and  having the skills, ideas and credibility to create illustrations and make enough money to live off from selling my work. Also i would like to be well known enough within the industry for clients to contact me for work, asking me to create illustrations for things such as; magazines, advertisements, tshirts etc.. 
However within this area of work competition is massive, their are so many illustrators out their that are far far better that which i aspire to someday create work to a similar level, i feel even though their isnt really a limit to the amount of freelance work you do, the amount of illustrations you create and prints you sell and things like that, the commissioned work is what you would really need to get your name out their and to make a successful living and with the competition so high within illustration i can see this being very hard.

FINISH DIS.