First of all, when I began my research I hadn't really got any idea what I wanted to do. I've spent a lot of my time being worried that whatever I do would be worthless, and was being too harsh on myself. I started by going to 3 places and came out with so much information, and I was confused on how to interpret this, I struggled for a short time to formulate an idea that related to it. When I came up with the 'bad spies' idea, I believe I was just settling with it, and trying to convince myself that I could change my work in order to fit this brief. After development of my idea, I realised I could focus on the facial expression of the spy instead of trying to be funny. Of course, the close ups of faces were more successful as portraiture is my thing, being funny isn't. Looking back, there were some interesting faces in my early research photos from being out and about. I wish I could have been decisive at the beginning so I would have had more time on my successful idea, and like it was said in my feedback, got more expressions to work with and perhaps I'd have been able to do a happy/sad set of books. I could have also experimented with media instead of pencil - things like coloured pencil would have perhaps been more interesting. What was lost on people was my idea of how people are affected by their environment, this is why I tried to add some text to the images. I could have picked a more informative title than 'facial expressions' and worked on the composition of the images to give more clues as to where they were. The coloured book was more successful in this instance, as they had things going on in the backgrounds. The biggest influence to my work was Kyle Lambert, his work is so inspiring because he used detailed digital portraiture to illustrate, which is what I'm most interested In doing. - he inspired me to work on my iPad too.
The outcome wasn't too bad, the saddle stitch was simple and effective, and the pictures came out well. This is except for part one, where there were a lot of marks on the page. These were not visible on screen, after I brushed over them, but I should have erased the background first, so that I knew there wouldn't be any marks on the pictures. Also I could have printed testers out first just to check.
The main thing I've realised completing this brief is to not doubt myself so much, and also listen to people, I should be less narrow minded, open to experimentation and not be so afraid to fail. Listening to feedback definitely would have helped me.
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