Reflection 1

So far this module I have been mostly focusing on smaller projects and just having a lot of fun with them. I’ve been producing a lot of work for the upcoming exhibition, such as the paintings I’ve been doing and some linoprints etc. I’ve also done a large scale interactive painting, which people put their head in.

I have mostly just been experimenting with a variety of different processes and approaches to smaller projects so far. For example I’ve been doing some painting, some short comics (based on Wallace and gromit), some 3D work, and some work for other exhibitions.

I have been enjoying these projects because they’ve been quite short projects but there hasn’t been too much time pressure, which has given me the opportunity to experiment with some different approaches. For example, my first 7x7 for this module is for my So Young Magazine submission. The brief was quite loose, we were just given a list of artists and bands and you could create a piece of work inspired by them or their music, or a line from a song etc. I chose Mark E. Smith because I didn’t know much about him so it gave me the opportunity to do some research into his music and what he was like as a person. This was a lot of fun, and I ended up combining linoprint with some analogue and digital techniques to create the final product. I’m really pleased with the outcome because it’s not a way I usually work but I think it’s very effective for the subject matter.

The Wallace and Gromit ‘parody’ work that I’ve been doing has also been a lot of fun – it has allowed me to explore the dark but humourous tone of voice that I have been hoping to achieve, and has also allowed me to focus some work on characters and on narrative. This is something I’d like to explore further through the module, however I don’t know how far I could take this project. It would be a lot of fun to do a lot of short one-page comics and then possibly collate this into a publication or something along those lines, but on the other hand I would prefer to focus my time on creating my own characters and maybe some longer stories. I will have to see how this progresses.