Feedback From Tutor
I had my tutor report back a few weeks ago but I have been to Malta for a week holiday which was nice to be surrounded in so much history and get a breath of fresh air from my busy year. I got to relax little and got mentally organised to know now what my next moves are in my rise within my art career.
My tutors feedback was great and I really happy with it. I felt proud that my tutor has seen my illustrations all of a sudden become more of my own style due to getting out and about and meeting fellow artists.
Good Points
My tutor liked my work in the painting and drawing exercise and felt I was really creative with expressing ideas with a simple object. She saw this again in my paint brush art I did.
Judy also pointed out how well I have been gathering images and items for research towards projects that I am doing.
She asked me if the places I have been to have helped? I really think they have, I have met other artists and felt really inspired. I have come to realise not to be scared with my ideas there will always be someone who likes my work. I just need to be true to myself in my art and hopefully this will show my love of creating through my work.
Shes also liked my 3D bird illustration, which I think I had a bit of a breakthrough and I agree with her to test out when putting it in to Photoshop and also changing it in to black ant white, which is actually was something I enjoyed doing.
For my final assignment I got some great feedback. My research was good and she can see I had so much fun with creating the pumpkin illustration. I agree with her in regards to my pineapple illustration that it does not have the same 'Gemma' vibe to it. I wanted to try out watercolour paints and then edit it in Photoshop, but perhaps I should of tested on something else and just did two 3d illustrations.
I did to a 3D Pineapple at the end for a children's idea to just try and make up for the first pineapple attempt. Judy said to try it again and I will do when I have time and redo it for that assignment so I have a matching pair.
Things to think about
I really like Judy's feed back because I really can see she as looked at my work and the things she has pointed out for room for improvement are so true to me to.
The main one to me is my perspective drawing. I know myself this is some what of a weakness and never really sussed it out. I need to improve on my perspective. Especially if I want to do children's books etc as I will need to draw rooms and landscapes for my character to be within. I am going to refresh on this within the next few weeks and keep practising to help me improve.
My tutor also pointed out on my 1950 illustration about my image was not as good as it could of been. Being honest I was not all that keen with doing an illustration with in a room 1950 style. This may of been due to knowing my perspective skills are not that great. Also I was not too keen on the task. I enjoyed the research part but I think my heart was not in this one really it didn't excite my style to create some thing great. This is also some what true about the choosing content illustration but this time I enjoyed the theme. However I used Photoshop to experiment with drawing my person but I forgot to create a scene to set the mood. As It was my first go it took me a while with creating the person but hopefully with practise I will get better at using Photoshop.
She also pointed out to go further into spider diagrams and take it to another level which by her explanation I can understand. it does make sense and it will help to get more ideas.
My umbrella illustration got some good feed back but yet again Judy is great and notices how I had to squeeze the end on my umbrella on to my page. Yes it was frustrating I didn't realise till I was half way through doing it so I ended up just carrying on with it. I will pre think about my composition on my paper before I apply it next time.
Finally mentioned that she would like to see more drawing in my sketch book which I will give a go to create more illustrations, even if they are quick ones to help me improve.
Research
Judy mentioned that my black and white image of the viper fish should of just been black and white and not used tones of grey to get a good effect. She has directed me to look at Geoff Grandfield and another OCA student, Karen Loz:
Geoff Grandfield
Images below from http://geoffgrandfield.co.uk/
I can see by looking at his work his black and white areas are very crisp and clear and make good dramatic scenes. I can see now that I should of kept it more simple and created a dramatic black and white illustration.
I had a look at Karens Loz attempt and I can see now how I should of attempted this task. Her attempt is really good and she has thought about a scene which would work well (a nighttime sky). This is her link to see her attempt: https://karen-loz.com/2015/08/exercise-using-black-and-white/
Judy has also gave me some useful books to help, even a perspective one! which I am going to get to help me.
Thanks for your feed back Judy! :)
Ready for Assignment 3
Now after recapping and knowing which things to improve and what to carry on with I am now ready to move to the next assignments. I am looking forward to see where the next few weeks takes me.
