Professional project

Yesterday we where briefed on our final major project. The morning started with Dan giving us a lecture on what we should be thinking of when starting this project, writing our learning agreement and what we should do to meet the learning outcomes.

Like I earlier said I have been looking forward to this project. A lot of freedom to create, a lot of work, a good amount of time and hopefully an outcome that is unique, something that pinpoints what I am as an artist and something that will get me recognition and potential clients attention.

During our briefing Dan gave us an exercise, some questions to answer about yourself as an artist;

What are your strengths/what learned:

- Illustration, generating images
- Thinking outside the box
- Team work, collaborating with other areas of art, using other peoples skills
- Coming up with ideas
- Self reflecting
- New technical skills, Photoshop, DreamVeawer
- The importance of backup research
- The importance of "philosophy" behind an image

Preferences:

- Illustration, book illustration, hand drawn art
- Combining art forms, mixed media, illustration+words=books, illustration+music=animation/music video
- An idea behind an image
- Keeping away from mainstream, thinking outside a box

Where do you want to be:

- Collaborate with different people in different areas of art, feed from others creative minds
- Editorial illustration, images interacting with words, images explaining words

What type of work to produce:

- In general: work with layers, in meaning, not just generate "flat" images that have no meaning
- Work that stands the test of time, but interesting at present
- For professional project: unique, individual work

I am set on an idea in my professional project. I am going to produce a book. Write a novel/short story, make the images and bind the book together. My end product will be three different books, the written language, the images and the final product coming together.