Illustration and imagination

For the first Monday on the first week of workshops our task was illustration. For this task we were asked to brainstorm many ideas about what we believe imagination should be represented as to do with ourselves.

reflecting:
At first with this task I felt slightly confused, due to the vagueness of what we were asked to do. Eventually I managed to find a solution to this after discussing the topic with my Tutor Angie, and this in turn allowed me to gain some initial ideas into the topic. After brainstorming and creating a flow chart of different aspects of my imagination I managed to find the most commonly popped up words and topics and therefore took those forward to illustrate. I feel that I had achieved quite a lot, especially seeing as my final piece was a 3D model instead of a flat graphics piece, which I felt added to the depth and dimension of the imagination topic in a very successful way. Feedback wise the few people who did see the model commented that it was clever using the idea of  a TARDIS and it being bigger on this inside which allowed me to show how an imagination can be so huge in the same way. and this encouraged development of my work by letting me think about more 3D aspects I could add to future objects.

Analysing:
I think the most successful part of my work was how the 3D aspect of it made it stand out more than a flat image which everyone else had chosen to do. Because of this, it also gave a great connotation of the idea of the TARDIS representing an imagination, where both can be considered so giant and almost endless within. If I had to pick something wrong with this project that did not work it would be how the cardboard 3 exterior failed to be fully coloured in blue on all sides. However this was due to human error of my marker running out and could therefore be fixed at any time. I found it challenging making the actual imagination illustration because I felt that it looked almost rushed, due to the black pen effect and how simple the images looked. However even though it may have this appearance it did take a very long time to make, and therefore if questioned I would talk about how this was very tedious and time consuming to make.

Time management:
concerning my time management with this part of the project I feel I was slightly pressured as I found it the most difficult project of the week due to my slow start. However once I got the idea and concept grasped about what I could illustrate I felt it was quite straight forward, with my only time problem being how long it look to colour and draw out the internal image.