PPP: Who are you now, what are your plans for your future practice.

 W H O   A M   I   N O W 

I filled out this sheet at the beginning of September, after a month and a half back at Uni and working on my practice every day I still have the same feelings about who I am now as an illustrator. I'm still very interested in colour palettes, so have started looking for illustrators that are working with limited ones. Whilst doing COP research I found a really great website - moviesincolor.com which showcases iconic cinema shots with a colour palette underneath.  It's something I enjoy looking at in my own personal time. 

I'm also taking more of an interest in concept work and character design, I've been following more accounts on Instagram that focus on this area. Some of the people I've followed are concept artists for Disney, Cartoon Network and Dreamworks. It's interesting to see how their practice works, they often don't post a lot of what they're actually working on in their studios (for obvious reasons) but instead they are being constantly creative and engaging with their instagram audience. Many of them draw on the way home or make their own comics in their own time. 

W H E R E   A M   I   G O I N G ? 

I've begun to email a person a week (as I feel like thats a small amount of progress to start with) about their practice or about going to visit them. Last week I emailed someone from West Yorkshire Playhouse about volunteering, as it's a busy time of year for them they had most of their spots taken but I have been put on a waiting list so hopefully by January I will be able to go up there and see how their costume department works (which is something I found interesting and wanted to know more about how they got their jobs and how the costumes are designed and sourced). 

Personal goals I'm setting myself are to keep drawing as much as possible and draw more small comics from what is going on around me. I'm also still experimenting with media as much as I can, I want to stay away from getting too good at one thing. Last month (october)  I've been focusing on digital drawing and getting better with a wacom, but November I want to focus on lino cutting (partly because it's a great way to make xmas presents) but also because it's something I never really explored in second year but spend a lot of time looking at online (watching lino cutting before bed is so soothing). 

One of the other students showed me a book (and dammit I can't remember the name, I'm totally going to find it and put it on here though..) but it looked like it had been screenprinted when actually it was produced digitally and had layers of texture to make it look as if it had been screen printed. She also said that she could see my work working well in this style so that's something I will also be investigating into.