Summative Position Statement

Summative Position Statement 

So I have come along way in the development of my ideas and feel this has been invaluable to me in these later stages of the degree. I have learnt that in order to create a professional standard of work I must continue to develop my ideas by repeating the design over and over but with any changes I feel will improve the final out come. These changes can sometimes be very subtle things such as line quality or could be more significant such as a complete change of subject matter. This has already proved a winner when it comes to customer satisfaction, for example, with the recent brief I have just done for some private clients, the stages of repetition helped me to create a range of different images that they were able to choose from. They where very happy with the choices I gave them to pick from and felt more in control of their design by having choice. This technique I feel is going to help me as I continue to build up my logo and designs for my brand LIVRID and will enable me to have a quality range of designs I can try to sell on and build up a reputation.

I am really going to focus a lot of my time on getting LIVRID going and out in the alternative music, board and lifestyle industries. By producing more then just garments of clothing and applying my designs to other items that can help me get to more potential customers. To showcase my work further I am take these products to markets and events where I can hold a stall and come to face to face with customers. I will continue to update my portfolio and different social media with the work I’m producing in the hope this will reach out to more people seeing my work.

Focusing on my brand will enable me to continue my understanding of screen-printing and develop the confidence to print other people’s work as I feel this could be another source of income that would enable me to build my equipment and knowledge of the medium.

I will also try to get freelance work from more people that want me to design or illustrate their ideas. The fact that I have been approached by several individuals to ask if I would be up for working with them on their projects has shown me that there is a market for my work.

Along side of all of this I am going to have to take on more part time work, which is not ideal but is necessary to have a stable income to contribute towards living costs. That said I am applying for jobs that are in creative environments or places I’m able to continue to network with creative people. So far I have applied to be a shop worker in a paint shop in town and also to a local college to be a technician on they art and design programs.

End of Module Student Evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation

BA(hons) Illustration

Module Code: PPP3 OUIL602

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Student ID:

Please identify where the evidence for each of the learning outcomes is within your submission and how well you feel you have met the learning outcomes. Please also grade yourself in relation to the learning outcomes using terms:

> poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent (Note- This is so that the team have an understanding of how well you feel you have done. It is not an indication of the actual grade you may receive)

Learning Outcome	Evidenced where? Blog, Sketchbook, Roughs Final Illustrations, development sheets etc.  (No more than 75 words)	Your grade Using words: > poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent
6A3 Demonstrate specific knowledge and specialist understanding of the professional and contextual location of their practice. Knowledge and Understanding - RESEARCH	Blog, sketchbook, final illustrations	Satisfactory
6B2 Undertake research to identify and evaluate their personal and professional skills and the career or progression opportunities available to them. (Cognitive Skills - EVALUATION & REFLECTION	BLOG, Sketchbook,	Satisfactory ß
6C2 Develop and implement a personal promotion strategy to communicate to relevant organisations. Practical & Professional Skills - VISUAL QUALITY)	BLOG, Sketchbooks, Final Illustraions	good
6D2 Use a range of appropriate communication methods to present themselves as a professional practitioner to a relevant audience. Key Transferable Skills - PROFESSIONALISM & COMMUNICATION	BLOG , sketchbook, Final Illustraions	satisfactory

Evaluation (See guidance below for more information)

You are required to write a 500 word evaluation of this module.

I was unsure at the beginning of the year where I wanted my practice to go. I tried to find a area that I could fit in to and my work would be accepted by others. I quickly realized that most of my recent work had a transgrestive feel and that I should concentrate on this area. With me drawing a lot of skull as this is my passion I thought why not just My real focuses has been on my hand drawn work and how I can produce this to a standard that needs very little digital editing before it is taken from drawing to product. I don’t mind using software such as Photoshop to clean up my work but I feel this can sometimes take away the charm that ‘handcrafted’ seems to have. I have used a variety of techniques and many different types of pen to find ones that do what I need them to do and translate my movements to marks that have movement to them . From tis I have begin to see that my work could be sold under a brand image as I produce a lot of images that would fit happy in the alternative music scene and be accepted to the heavy metal world. I have learnt to really focus on not using my first idea for the final design but to work on this over and over and over again. With the skulls that im drawing at first it was hard to draw them over and other again and get them to appear the same but I quickly realized it was working and that not all of them had to be like photocopy’s of each other for them to be seen as the same work. Now taking these methods and way of producing work and turning into products, This is where the whole unit has slowed right down as I am yet to get into my shed to print due to finances, but taking a turn as some of the commons I have done recently are been paid for and this will give me some funds to buy equipment I need to get my brand of the ground.  I have researched and shopped around to find the products I want to be able to produce products of a good standard. Also to my surprise some individuals have approached me to produces illustrations and designs for them. I have completed one of these so far and I’m just awaiting payment.  I have found this to be a nice experience and how well it went working with clients and the fact I have not had to evaluate every step I feels has help my creativity flow. I am going to try find more work that is working with other clients as I feel this is a area I have shied away from do to my confidence in my work but since been approached by clients its given my confidence a real boost.

presentaion

Presentaion Boards

Portfolio -Studio Brief 2

Mars Attacks
This poster was done to be part of a Fan Art show the course put on at a local comic book shop The Traveling man. I have added this to my portfolio as its one of my favorite designs iv done in the past few months.

Grunhilda - VW camper 

I was asked to make two designs with skulls, a yorkshire rose and the name Grunhilda. These where to be put on the side of a 1964 Splitscreen VW Camper my all time favorite vehicle.
These have also been my very first paid commission work which is nice and also terrifying, but it all went really well and the van owners where over the moon with the designs. Just waiting for them to be applied to the vehicle for some final images.

Out OF Order - Show poster

Gig Posters and Record Sleeves

This is a selection of Record and Gig poster that I have made for my favorite various bands,

DEATHEARTH

This is from one of the second year briefs personally its one of my favorite images i created whilst at LCA.

Updated Creative CV

Promo Pack - Studio Brief 2

When coming up with the promo products that i could give out to potential customers/clients I want to produce products that have a practical use not just things that are ready for the bin due to the poor quality or the fact its just a business card that gets put in a pocket and forgot about. Id like to produce product for promoting my brand that have a practical use. So here's what im proposing to be in my

PROMO PACK

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Business Cards / Mini Prints -

A selection of different business cards so people have a choice of design to choose from.
These can also double up as a set of mini prints that could be given out in a pack because sometimes things look better as a set.  Print them out at a slightly larger size then business card and on some nice stock paper.

I have also done a few of these hand drawn as I feel a nice hand business card has a nice feel to it and its abit more personal.

Car Air freshener -

Freshen up the smell and look of your car because not everyone likes a tree dangling. These would take pride of place in someones car and could advertise myself to others that may travel in the car also.

Totebag -

Cheap to produce and quick to produce, can even have two different designs one for each side of the bag. Not sure about these as personally im not a huge fan and they can look right cheap.

Wrapping paper one sheet

Who doesn't run out of wrapping paper and need some at the last minute, well here i can supply people with that emergency sheet just in.

Tea Towel

With this same design which i do like myself very much I can see it fitting well on a tea towel which i know from previous external projects these are cheap and good quality to make, And you dont see many tea towels like this.
All that is needed is to make the design more rectangular in length and it will fit straight on to a tea towel.

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Badges/small Stickers

So by selecting areas of my other designs which would make a good visual for a small badge or small sticker. These would be cheap er to produce then some of my other ideas and would be nice to send out in orders or on a stall if i was to do some art fares.

I have used designs that are on my business cards as this will save me time designing products and gives some similarities with what i'm handing out.