Going into this brief I was pretty excited since much of my work is based on the relationship between people and places.
In the future, something that I have considered is doing reportage work. However, although illustration is often a job with a lot of uncertainty, I feel like reportage is particularly niche and hard to get a job in. During this brief, I plan to explore ways to include reportage elements in different types of illustration to expand my practice.
Something else that I have previously wanted to explore further is imaginary places. I admire artists who are able to develop complex worlds that seem believable while also being extremely imaginative, making the audience engage deeply with their work. One example is Alexis Deacon, who create a sense of suspense and anticipation as he slowly reveals the nonsensical and exciting aspects of the worlds he creates.
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One of the subjects that I wanted to try approaching in this project is finding adventure in unexpected places which might've, at first, seemed boring.
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looking at creative formats that enhance the feelings that being in certain places evokes.
Magdalena Bors
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Chris Kenny
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Lauren Clay
During the winter break, as I was heading home, I took the opportunity of my fairly long journey to do some life drawings.
Doing this ended up enhancing my journey, as not only did it give me an activity to focus on instead of the dread and misery of being stuck in a train then coach then airport then plane then airport again, and so on, but it even made me feel excited. Normally I would feel more and more exhausted with each change of space, but now I looked forward to changing the setting of my observational drawings. Even sitting in the airport for 4 hours didn't seem so boring while I was observing the people around me while also visually documenting them.
Airports
In the city
Bus stops
Fog and Frost
Helen Frankenthaler
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Middle spaces
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Aimless Exploration
To play around with framing, I created a small experimental book where I tried out different types of framing the characters. Some of the spreads came out looking quite intrusive, making the subjects feel surveilled.
