Studio Brief 5 was an interesting brief due to it’s evolution throughout the course of the year. Whilst it initially spun out of my Beyond La La Land comic in Studio Brief 1 with the intention of creating more of the same, the brief ultimately changed into a self defence guide promoting safety.
Despite the drastic change of outcome the underlying theme of female empowerment is still prevalent in the end product. Additionally the product’s distribution method understandably changed. Initially the end product would have been a comic, sold in bookshops, comic book stores etc. Then with the change to a self defence guide it was imagined as a leaflet to hand out to victims of muggings etc at police stations or given to participants of self defence classes. Ultimately it ended up being a series of GIF images that would be posted online through social media.
I explored my process at get length through this brief, with my desire to work more with analogue methods of illustration prevalent throughout the early parts of the year. However as my workload increased and time became an issue I found digital to be a better method of production for creating work of a visual high quality. At times this did mean my line work took longer to create, but had I been working with pen and pencil, the time pressures would have resulted in a lesser quality outcome.
Finally, I feel that my understanding of character development and knowledge of form grew dramatically throughout this brief. Where I got into the habit of tracing a found image I now use myself as a reference and use my frame to create an anatomically correct form, before building from there.
Whilst I hit a lull mid way through this brief, I ultimately feel that the process and purpose of my work found a strong direction near the end that I capitalised on to full effect.
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