Forte...

I love my drawing and I am not bad at it, but you've always got to strive for better. Practice makes perfect as they say, this is a highest of priorities is to keep on working on this skill.  Not for the fact that I'll lose but I wont get better at it. In the ikllustration business, there is always someone bigger and better than you. So to overcome this continue to keep drawing, take a sketchbook with me wherever I go and sketch where I am stood. Seen as there is always something to draw.

Since this beginning of the module I have decided to go out into town for at least an hour and create some quick drawing of my surrounding, and to make sure that I am drawing people, so this can improve on my figurative sketching. Some results of a couple of pages...

I go home most weekends to work at my local towns pub, but before I arrived into work I saw an advertisement for Life Drawing sessions  at the town hall every saturday morning until the end of November, so I thought I'd join as this would be the perfect opportunities to improve my life drawing skills. Will post pictures throughout the blog on some of the work that we have done seen as they taught us a few techniques.

Here's an example...

I also want to build on my strengths in the print room, I absolutely LOVE producing monoprints and dry-point etched ones! There are several reasons. Using this monoprint/drypoint etch method I can create textures, a create lines that I can achieve using tools such as pens and pencils. 

Here is a print that I did for the design specialism module. For me to improve my printroom skills is quite important as an illustrator it is good to have as much practice to be more versatile in all areas. The action need ed is to carry on experimenting with the quality of line, awareness to tone and also texture. Another action point would be to be re-inducted into the screen printing as I have forgotten the method from last years session. The final action point would be to go to the print room in my own time so I can create some prints to add to my portfolio.

Another strength of mine which I consider to have as an illustrator is that I enjoy working as part as a team, discussing and listening to others ideas and concepts. You know you're having a good conversation about ideas when you say, 'How did we get from that idea to....this?!'' Being able to talk about ideas to a group is a useful skills to have because if one person can create at least 40 ideas alone, imagine the range of ideas you'd have between 6 brains. An action plan to help continue building on this skills would be to participate more in classes, voicing opinions and not being afraid to be passionate about what I am doing.