Initial Thoughts on AOI-Competition

Pros:

• This Years Brief Isn't focused on London specifically so I can go sit in a local city and draw inspiration from something uniquely northern. 
• I really want to work with Museums so this puts me towards a correct path i want to go down professionally
• Opportunity for reportage and life drawings 

Cons:

• I find it difficult to draw noise 
• I tend to avoid drawing urban environments
• I hate and can't draw transport

This could be very rewarding and fulfilling if I manage this correctly.  Hopefully this work will make me feel more ready for level 6. 

Initial Thoughts

How do I feel about re-submitting OUIl503?

Not great, however I know where I went wrong Initially and how I need to fix and improve to help develop my practice.

I'm seeing this resubmission as a learning curve as well as a turning point in my practice.
I aim to use this to the benefit of myself and learn greatly from it. Improving my work and myself for next year.

Project Report + Summative Evaluation

Applied Illustration Presentation Boards

Final 505 Product

OUIL 505 Photo shoot.

• The Photo shoot went relatively well, setting up was a bit of a faff but otherwise was fine.
• Setting the box and characters up was harder pre-shoot because it turned out that the lid had been printed out at the wrong size so it was too big for the box. Something I would need to look at in future if remaking this. 
• The characters were tricky to cut and mount. I'd probably look at using the laser cutter to create cleaner lines sent time.

OUIL 505 Printing & Redesign

I got them printed on time and i'm please with the results, Next time I'd maybe make the board game bigger but I don't know if I'm just being pernickety.
I also redesigned the payable characters and feel like they are better suited to the style of game I'm making. I ended up basing the characters off people I know, I found that relating them to similar personalities I knew meant that I was able to draw more expressive characters.

OUIL 505 Designs, Crit & Reflection

• The Design used was based of a Tudor one from a collection of Tudor patterns , It was complex enough to be interesting but simple enough not to overwhelm or be too time consuming to design.
• Simply replacing the roses with Syphilises face allowed me to illustrate without words what this game was focused on. 
• Drawing the playable characters was more difficult because I didn't want them to just be the Hollywood versions of tudor people who are all clean, healthy and slim.
• I wasn't really feeling them but I thought the Milk Maid looked okay?
• Ben said they looked more like character studies of what people in that era wore than playable characters for this sinister fun game.
• He's right and I don't think that they need to have their full bodes for you to know they're a duke or a milk maid,I should make characters that are fun and fit with the game. They're not the centrepieces anyway.