Your Initial Brief: Concepts and Critiques

My first 64 concept images (concerning the letter J) I completed with relative ease. I had many ideas for them and got them down on paper very quickly. However when I came to my second sheet (involving P) I again began to struggle, many of the images I was drawing had been done before – they were being refined, although I was somewhat unaware of this at the time until it was pointed out to me.

Another issue I faced was that Janin had been watching films involving drug use. Although I feel I had made concepts that conveyed addiction, there was little there to represent film so on my second sheet I began the bring in the aspect of film more with the drug use theme.

(My concept sketches for the letters 'J' and 'P')

I then selected my favourite 5 images and blew them up to A5 using the photocopies in the library. 

(My 5 enlarged images)

After this we were put into groups where we critiqued each other’s development work and images. I expressed my desire to use a more wider range of materials in future work as i had only varied between pens and pencil crayons. My peers were kind enough to give me a few suggestions on different media to use. They also gave me a few pointers on what they felt worked and didn't work in the pieces. For example - my elephant image was felt to be overly detailed, most people said that the head alone would be a strong enough image – the body and legs were unnecessary.

I will need to produce an A2 portrait image in black and white incorporating the two letters we had worked with. I chose the two pieces I felt worked best to represent the letter of J and P, the Elephant and the film reel. I'm feeling somewhat daunted by this task somewhat as I dislike working on a larger scale. I'm going to have to spend some time looking into ways to transfer my A5 images onto a bigger format.