evaluation
This project took me the longest time to get a handle on, and trying to find a way for my brain to comprehend what goes into making abstract art, but I certainly felt it all click in to place once I had completed a bank of developmental work for my idea. Creating the artwork from these sources of visual information (such as the emotive line research bank and predator-vision colouring story maps) made me feel like I was more informed in my creative choices and acted as the ‘reference’ I would tend to need to work from for observational/figurative artwork.
My final work ended up still being very figurative (though my notes hopefully explain the reasoning for that with it working in relation to the abstracted form of the comic book), the approach of finding abstraction within the textures and shapes of observational drawings was a large part of my thinking but I feel they could have been even further unrecognisable with more development (though to what cause, I’m undecided as to wether this would actually improve the work over just ensure it stuck more accurately to the brief).
I definitely want to bring more abstraction into my work, coinciding and enhancing my figurative work especially when it comes to my comics. Furthering the spontaneity and exploratory materials used image making process is something I want to focus on next, combining with all the theory I have learnt from this module.
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