- PPP has made me think about skills that will help me working as a professional, such as time management and personal organisation, but these are also key to being a successful student, whether you're in the arts or not. Being an efficient individual is handy for anything!
- PPP has also made me think about and forced me to engage with the wider design and illustrative world, and learn and gain knowledge from other practitioners.
- Reflecting on my work and personal progress throughout the year on the blog means is a steady way of constantly evaluating myself and how to improve, but also having it on the blog means I can look back and see how I've improved, and if I have not done enough then I can think about what needs to be done.
2. What approaches/ types of research have you found most valuable over the module? Why did they have such an impact?
- I did a lot of my research on the internet. I suppose it could be considered a lazy choice I suppose, but the internet particularly in regards to social media is becoming such a huge thing in art and design communities that it's not something that can or should be ignored. It is also something very easy and accessible to do, though must be used with caution as it is open for any and everybody to use.
- And in that way books and journals offer a more credible type of research I suppose, but I also found that its perhaps harder to find something you're interested in in such an immediate way as using the internet. However, you are more likely to find interviews and writings on the artist's process in books and journals, such as Varoom, which I find more interesting and useful.
- As always, personal visual research in terms of making and doing is helpful, particularly as a means of personal reflection. As a visual thinker making visual diagrams is the most intuitive way to think and reflect
3. In what way has PPP informed the way your work in other modules and your illustration practice as a whole?
- Making a conscious effort to look at other practitioners' works and study what makes them good / bad / effective / unique I've been able to take elements and inspiration from them in my own work (without directly copying them!), hopefully making me a more informed and better illustrator as a result of it.
- And with that, constantly evaluating my work helps me to improve and reflect in an independent way.
- As before, being more aware of organisation and so becoming more organised means I can get more work done! This has been particularly helpful in regards to juggling multiple briefs at a time.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your PPP submission and how will you address this in the future?
- I don't think I have looked at a wide enough range of practitioners. I've been prone to just looking at other illustrators, and only recently have started thinking about how other disciplines can influence myself (such as photography).
- And I have not recorded all of the practitioners I have been looking at, which is not only not helpful in terms of doing well in this module but also means that I can't go back and recall what I have looked at and use it for reference in the future too.
- I am concerned that my Illustrated Self project is too broad and does not make enough sense!
- Although I think I've been good at evaluating I'm not sure I've actually spent enough time on the improvement side! I haven't really started to think about what I want or how I want to change or what I think is successful until now, at the end of the first year, and it may have well helped me to start this earlier!
5. What communities of practice and professional contexts do you intend to investigate further as you approach level 5? Why do they appeal to you?
- All along I've had an interest in storytelling through illustration, and Visual Narratives gave me the opportunity to work on this in a sequential way, which I very much enjoyed. I'm also becoming interested in the 'self-published scene', particularly after making two books of my own this year. I'm not sure if I'm interested in this because it is self-published, or because I made a tangible object at the end of it though.
- This year has also given me the opportunity to work on editorial style illustrations. I think I work best when responding to a given brief, so would like to look into it further, if it does turn out to be one of my strengths.
- But whilst I like responding to briefs but I think I need to find my own tone of voice, that might be done through more personal projects, and I also think this can inform my more brief led decisions too.
- I've done some print making this year, though not as much as I intended. I'm interested in how process can inform a final result and even its worth, and would like to investigate this more and how printmaking could become a part of my practice.
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