Studio Brief
OUIL402 Personal and Professional Practice 1
Brief
Who am I? What do I want to be? How can I show this in my work? Where do I want my work to exist?
Produce a set, series or sequence of illustrations that will occupy the dimensions 594 w x 841 h (A1 Portrait)
The work produced should reflect my emerging interest in illustration, an awareness of the professional aspect of my creative ambitions and my PPP research from this year. This is an opportunity to consider what I have enjoyed? Where do my strengths lie? What do I want to push further through more play and testing?
Investigate the relationship between:
Context/Function
Portrait, Poster, Book, Pattern, Character, Landscape, Packaging, Editorial, Object, Garment, Humour, Reportage, Narrative, Sequence, Satirical, Persuasive, Promote, Agitate, Subvert.
Methodology
Drawing, Painting, Screen print, Etching, Lino, Collage, Digital, Lens, Object, 3D.
Visual Language
Line, Quality, Shape, Texture, Composition, Colour, Observational/Reference Drawing, Imagined/Invented Visual Devices, Pattern, Form, Design Principles.
Considerations
My own personal development as an individual and as an illustrator is affected by all aspects of my life. This is an opportunity to reflect on the experiences from the past nine months that have informed the decisions that I've made/am making about my future development. Consider the following questions as a starting point for my work:
What do I want to illustrate?
What excites me?
What am I passionate about?
What interests me?
What do I want to know more about?
What do I want to say?
Who do you want to speak to?
Consideration of context may inform my decision.
Is there a subject tackled earlier in the year that I'd like to return to?
Do I have personal interests that I'd like to make some work about?
Perhaps I'd like to explore a subject in more detail that I know little about?
This will require:
Research
Interrogation
Speculative Questioning...
...through reading, drawing and reflecting. Challenge yourself! Look to innovate. Don't rely on what you can already do!
Audience
This work is going to exist in a show. This should define my work. Consider what I want to say/show to the world. What will resonate with my audience and how will I do this?
Sketchbook/ Rigour and Development
The duration of this brief provides me with an extended period of time with which to explore, develop and test my ideas and image making skills with far more rigour than ever before.
EXHAUST your sketchbook/design sheets in order to produce the best work possible.
REFLECT on my year, the skills and learning I have inherited should inform this work.
What is innovation?
How do I define quality and success for myself?
Be critical of my results.
Generate a variety of potential proposals, backed up by research to be discussed and critiqued at the first crit session.
Project Management
Please make sure that you set your own deadlines and plan a schedule of action for the entirety of this brief. You will need to factor in production time to deliver artwork of the highest possible standards for the exhibition. Set interim deadlines, with clear aims for each week.
Deliverable's
A set, series or sequence of illustration that will occupy the dimensions 594w x 841h (A1 Portrait)
Evidence of the practical and conceptual development in the form of sketchbooks, worksheets, test pieces etc. posted to my PPP blog.
Evidence of ongoing self evaluation, reflection and analysis in relation to your own interest as an illustrator and the professional context of illustration.
Mind Map; exploring potential ideas:
After a short time thinking over the project and subjects that interest me, the topic of geisha's sprung to mind. I have always admired the intricate details and beauty in the scenes of Japan and the artwork inspired by this. I also know little about geisha's as they are something specific to only Japanese heritage (and some Chinese varieties), I don't know what they do or why they are made up like that, I have no knowledge apart from that they are beautiful, graceful and not prostitutes, yet hold some mystery around the subject of sex.
I also entertained the idea of basing my project on the teenage boys in our culture, the 'lost boys' without jobs and excluded from school, whether ADHD is not just human nature wanting to be wild and free to run around in nature. About how the school system teaches us to use our heads but not to use our bodies; in my opinion this is not a healthy way to teach people about life and I believe that if people spent more time outdoors and did at least an hour of actual exercise a day that many psychological problems would be far less, it also allows people to interact and learn things about the world around them without being bored and work like clones in order to make money and send your children to do exactly the same. I think teenage boys often have no positive role models particularly as it is so common for parents to break up, it is often the man that leaves to live elsewhere and often this creates a domino effect with girls having to face teen pregnancy alone and boys in gangs and misogynistic views as they have not witnessed how respect should be shown to a women day in day out.
However I think this is such a huge topic that it would be very hard to even attempt to tackle it in my art with the time provided.
I will find underlying issues within the geisha community, that is certain, and as it is a far smaller community it should be easier to approach these topics in a more accurately represented way. Japanese tradition also focuses a lot on the important and influence of nature so this will bring in this point of interest into my artwork/subject.
I started off by exploring the reasons I wanted to go down the Japanese geisha route for my project and how it fitted in to the skills and interests I want to pursue with my own work.
I then thought of a few questions to ask to start exploring the topic:
- How do you become a geisha?
- What happens if you quit being a geisha?
- Can you marry?
- Who are the most famous geisha?
- What do the places that they work look like?
- Do they still bind their feet?
- What do they wear? Corsets? Clothing and hair?
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