5 reasons I chose to study on this programme:
- I love art and drawing and felt this course would develop this passion into a profession
- I don't know much about the profession of illustration, and would like to know more about it
- I have been up to Leeds a few times and really love the city, I think the architecture here is really diverse and interesting, and there are lots of galleries to go to - so there is lots of forms of inspiration
- all the facilities at LCA looked really up to date and exciting. I haven't had much experience with printing facilities, so can't wait to try
- I like the fact that we will be the first year on this course, we haven't got anything to try and live up to, we get to set the bar which I think is really exciting and challenging.
5 things I want to learn on my time here:
- I want to learn where I stand as an illustrator, as I feel I definitely don't have a set style yet and want to experiment a lot throughout the year, but I want to have an idea of what direction of illustration I should go down; editorial, reportage etc.
- I want to try out all the printing facilities, I love the aesthetic of screen printing, mono printing etc. and would like to try them out
- I very vaguely used photoshop during my foundation just to fix up bits of work but I would like to be confident working digitally. Though I am not very interested in digital illustration, I want to know how certain programmes can benefit my analogue work
- I want to learn about illustration as a profession, I know very little about it - how people get into it, what the job entails, how different illustrators work
5 skills that are my strengths:
- I feel I am good at analysing and criticising my work, seeing what is wrong and working out how to make it better, I enjoy keeping blogs/journals where I can document how I'm working because I feel it helps me think better about what I need to do
- I can paint considerably well, I really enjoyed fine art at school, doing big oil paintings etc. and feel it has given me a good sense of colour and how to mix colours well
- I think I use my sketchbook well, I often need to draw things multiple times before they start to look good, I need my sketchbook so to gain an understanding of my subject matter before I can start to make finished pieces
- I like research. I loved English at school where I could really analyse books and learn the meaning behind the story. And I enjoy doing that with art, I find art pieces become so much more interesting to me once I know the reasons behind them. I find that while doing projects as well, I become much more motivated and intrigued once I gain an understanding of it
5 things I want to improve:
- I am quite a slow worker, and often find myself doing really controlled, detailed pieces that take hours to finish. So I want to be able to create fast development work, and not be too concerned with how it looks at the beginning of a project
- my time management during my foundation was sometimes an issue, as I often misjudged how long something would take me, or I would spend too long developing and not enough on the final image. So that will hopefully improve over the year
- I want to become more confident talking in front of a group, I've never been a very good public speaker but I know it's something I will have to do throughout my life so I need to be comfortable with it
- the amount of personal work I do, I used to draw all the time for fun but my foundation course was so intense, I found I didn't have much time for it, I did a bit over summer but want to make an effort to make more time for my own work
5 ways in which I will evaluate my progress:
- I will continue to update this blog regularly, posting my work and evaluating it myself, saying what I want to do next, and where I can improve
- take on board constructive criticism from other illustrators in the group
- keep all the forms from tutorials, and take note of any criticism/advice my tutors give
- regularly look back on work I have done - in sketchbooks and on my blog, to see past ideas, or where things did or did't work in the past
- take note of everything said in progress/final critiques throughout the year
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