The feedback i recieved

Moving away from research

Recently we had a fairly simple session where we were allowed to work on our Art Test in class and also receive any feedback from our fellow students or our tutors, George and Nigel. As I had been ill for the past five days, I had fallen behind on a bit of my work and had missed out on similar sessions so I wanted to take this chance to be able to talk to my tutors about my progress and to make sure I was on the right track. I got the opportunity to talk to my tutor Nigel, who specialise in 2D artwork, which is relevant to the Art Test I am doing so I am pleased that I managed to grab him for a few minutes.

I was able to show him my blog so that he could see what I had been working on over the past week and explained where I was planning to go from there. He immediately told me that I had done plenty of research and did not need to expand in this area, even though I did want to look up some image inspiration for different fractions but he said this wasn't necessary so that saved me doing some extra work which, in the end, would have been time wasting. He said the most important thing for me to do now is to move onto my thumbnails otherwise I would end up getting swept up in the research side of things and neglect the actual art side of the test. I was then able to ask him a few questions about the thumbnails we needed to produce and whether he had any techniques for drawing them. He told me that I should draw out nine boxes in rows of three and then spend five minutes drawing out a environment concept in each one, timing myself as I went along. Once I had completed this the first time, I was to repeat the process again and again, going over the same sketches each time and adding more detail every time I did. This way I would end up with nine detailed looking designs which I had spent a good amount of time on. 

I really like the sound of this technique as I think it would help me to push myself to work a little quicker and rougher so that I am not spending unnecessarily long on just one thumbnail, giving it to much detail on the first go. I think I will start off by trying this method on paper first and then completing a further nine thumbnails on Photoshop so that I have used a mixture of methods and, hopefully, will end up with some different results.