Mega task

Today we took part in the mega task with students from the animation and graphic design courses. We were paired up with students from the other courses and had to pitch ideas we came up with. I m not a fan of pitching ideas or public speaking in general. I am not too bad once I start but can really wind myself up while waiting to speak. It is something I need to get into the habit of doing on a regular basis even though my gut reaction is to avoid it at all costs. Having to pitch ideas does push me as I want to be as comfortable as possible with the idea and confident in it to be able to speak about it. I think today was a good exercise that introduced me people I have never spoken to before but may be working with in the future and working with people that come from different creative backgrounds with contrasting skill sets. Working in groups was challenging at times and some of the original ideas we had seemed to get lost along the way, however it was useful to get new perspectives from each individuals interpretation of the original pitch. Working in a huge group of 38 for the final video pitch highlighted the importance of communication and organisation in group work. After today I am excited and apprehensive about PPP and responsive this year but I think that is a good thing, if I wasn't being pushed out of my comfort zone I wouldn't feel I was making progress.

Study task 1

5 things I have learned so far in the programme

-The importance of communication

-Clarity in illustrations, not overcomplicating compositions to try and make them look 'good'

-To try and start a dialogue between my work and the audience

-Creating large amounts of roughs to help generate ideas.

- How to manage my time, and generate ideas more quickly

5 things I want to know more about

-How to create a business from my work

- Analogue processes that will help develop my work

- Character design- emotion

- Line quality

- Compositional tools like scale and negative space.

5 skills that you think I think are my strengths

-Digital processes

-Cartoons

-Humour

-Fine liner

- Shape based illustration

5 Things that I want to improve

-My analysis of my work, making the right choices

-Working with narrative

-Making the illustration match the tone of the subject

-Maintaining the movement from my roughs to a final image that I am happy with

-Experimenting with new media and techniques

5 practitioners that demonstrate my interest in illustration

-Jay Ryan

-Chris Haughton

- Jared Muralt

- Sven Waschk

- Brett Parsons

5 websites that demonstrate your areas of interest within creative industries

- Nobrow

- Instagram

-The Backyard Shop

-Artsper.com

-chrishaughton.com