Monday 12 January 2009

Progress with D&AD, advise; go crazy!

We had our first meeting with Catell about D&AD. Like I previously wrote, we had a semi fruitful meeting at Matt`s house on Sunday. I had high hopes about this meeting with Catell, because the thing we are missing at the moment is direction. We have our idea, but we all still feel a little lost and the new way of working, as three illustrators together is something we find difficult.

We started the meeting by explaining the brief to Catell and showing some of our sketches and also talking about the difficulties we are facing. She found the project to be a good one especially for people who have an interest in illustration. Her advise to us was to get a big paper and all draw together on it as a team. That way we could feed of each others ideas and creativity and not be afraid of our individual styles not working together. This was also an issue that was raised during our meeting; how to combine three different styles, make the illustration a piece that is equally ours and works as a whole without anyone having to compromise their style or anyones style being too dominant.

So the advice we got was to go crazy! To not limit ourselves and keep our individual styles within the piece we are creating. We arranged a meeting at my house on Wednesday. A big paper, pens, pencils and paints will be used!

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