Naomi's Illustration Adventure

Key Steps in Illustration  Module Evaluation  This module has been experimental, creative, imaginative and a whole lot of learning! I have experimented with various mediums, made mistakes, pushed my imagination and struggled up very steep hills. This module has been a huge learning curve and on reflection, an incredible journey.  Not only have I completed this module, but I have also enjoyed developing my personal work along the way, establishing consistency in style and gaining confidence that I'm building on day after day. As much as I have many pages of illustrative work for this module, I also have a bulging sketch book of my own pages and I am grateful to have been pushed with this journey of learning into developing as an artist.   Along the way, I have followed with interest the work of children's illustrator Rachel Bright along with Illustrator Charlie Mackesy, I feel fortunate to have followed his drawings to the fruition of his book 'The Boy...

Part Five  Reflections "You selected portfolio shows a good range of approaches; your overall style comes across as slightly scratchy, sometimes quite odd (in a good way!), but with a strong underlying technical ability and good compositional sense". I am over the moon at this feedback. I feel my tutor has understood and noticed the style of my work. "sometimes quite odd (in a good way!" is how I would describe my ideas.  I am delighted to hear that I am showing promise in a technical ability. "Your ‘How green is your food?’ sketchbook and idea development is good; of your three sketched-up ideas, the version with the scales is the strongest as it visualises a relationship between food and the planet clearly. The middle broccoli idea makes the broccoli look a little like a nuclear explosion which doesn’t quite work in the context of the brief! Your final version is a striking image, but it doesn’t articulate the idea of balance and relationship as ...