OUIL603 Evaluation

I feel this module is one of my stronger modules out of all three years (though maybe not as strong as COP). It’s allowed me to just be able to develop my practice and being able to pick and choose briefs that will help me personally develop works for my portfolio.

Starting off this year I was just starting to notice where my tone of voice sat and this module has let me play with media and develop my practice, giving me a consistent and coherent tone of voice that is very clearly mine and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching my work develop.

I was completely self indulgent this whole module, so all of my work is very much based off briefs that appeals to me and is perhaps not the most commercial. This was simply because I knew I would make terrible work if I wasn’t invested in the brief, and as a professional I would have plenty of briefs I probably wont be so enthusiastic about, so I should spend my learning days doing stuff I like to really hone my practice. For me; this worked and I have a body of work that I am extremely happy with, I can always take these images and apply them to things to show how they would work in a commercial sense.

I have thoroughly enjoyed developing my practice in papercraft and printmaking. I did enjoy the semi 3D things I started to make for FMP as it opened up a whole world of freedom for me in terms of my work because it meant I could create completely different compositions while photographing things that would have taken much longer and much more effort just drawing. Though I don’t think I will do it for every future project, it is something I would like to look more into, as well as expanding on my paper craft. For the EOYS I’m looking at re-making something from this but larger scale so that will be interesting.

Most people I talk to comment on how different my work is and how far I’ve come since I started the course which makes me feel proud of myself, I’m going in a completely different direction to what I initially thought I would 3 years ago but I’m much happier with my work and my budding practice.

I’ve made a bit of money off my work this year so that’s promising and positively re-inforcing me, giving me some confidence than I can continue this as a viable career.

OUIL603 Project Report

OUIL603 Final Solutions

OUIL603 Statement of Intent Review

These are my statments of intent: I'm just going to write some notes about my rationale and what I think I have or haven't achieved this year.

May 2017

I think I have successfully developed a coherent and consistent tone of voice throughout my work that I can apply to a variety of different uses : including publishing, the music industry, posters, packaging / advertising.
 - I would still like to look further at advertising. I am unsure if my work is so commercial but I think it definitely could be adapted. An idea I've had floating around in my head is cocktail menu's or adverts, cause alcohol always has weird limited edition stuff.

In my FMP I finally got round to doing some monoprinting and have continued doing bits of lino printing here and there that I have incorporated into my work. This will continue in my future practice as it has been incredibly helpful in moulding my tone of voice in regards to shape and texture. Monoprinting is also good for me because there's a lot of freedom and spontaneity (for me anyway because I do not intend to make anything solely monoprinted), which is something I kind of need in my practice in some way shape or form.

I think this year I have achieved what I set out to do which was improve technical skills and develop a tone of voice, because at the end of last academic year I felt a bit lost about what I was doing and now I'm at least 5% clearer

FMP || Presentation boards

FMP || FINAL IMAGES

(It took me ages to make the issuu document so all the pieces that were meant to be double page spreads came out that way so, take a moment to appreciate that)

So here they are, the final images!

1. Front cover: full design below. I meant to follow the Folio Society's competition specs but ended up doing just a generic book cover.

2. a pattern shown earlier on my blog, made from monoprinted pieces; could potentially be used as a 'blank' inside cover.

Title Pages:

 The Bloody Chamber title page: Minimal  - similar to front cover, plain white background.
other pages also have title pages for The Company of Wolves and The Tigers bride which all fit into this layout. I didn't want the images to be as detailed as the actual illustrations, but just a teaser for them - like a title is for a story. I'm happy with how these turned out! I think together they're coherent and also don't look too different from the inner illustrations while having a little bit of a more minimalist feel to them.


I would ideally would have liked to have done a couple of smaller floating spot illustrations for this so they're not all images of massive scenes.

I think for the bloody chamber I focused the scenes that I illustrated a little too close together, however these were exciting scenes and if I continued the project I would potentially do many more illustrations for the beginning of the story.

What I really love about how all the illustrations turned out is that I was not limited to just using various reds, I was able to use a bunch of greens and blues which personally I find more visually appealing and exciting. The colours don't detract from the tone of the image which i'm really happy with!

I really wanted to properly show the front of the iron maiden in this, so I slid it behind the text, I'm not sure if I'm happy with it, it looked much the same with or without so I decided to keep it there but it might be a little too clunky.

FMP || Digital Tweaking

I brought the photographs into photoshop and started merging other imagery and textures to create a full, finished image rather than just a kind of shoddy photograph. This phase really pulled things together and helped me to accept and see the images as work that was actually good rather than unfinished things lying about.  

Looking back, this may have worked better as a spot illustration ad the grey background kind of pulls away from the fire, but it shows how I add to the images to make a 'final' 

I knew i would not get as much finished as I wanted to so I did a few rough composition ideas for a Company of Wolves illustration.