Evaluating
Practice
I have
developed my way of working in this project by time management and planning and
working effectively towards a final piece in the Live brief: Birley Fields
commission. I have made connections
between practice, practical work and visual research. I gathered inspiration
from the building focussing on their eco-friendly environment, and blended this
with ideas from my sketchbook drawings and related artists.
The Live
brief project opened my mind to how to deliver ideas to a client. I was able to
make the piece in a short amount of time, with set ideas and internal deadlines
to meet to progress the piece through the development stages.
Even
though I was working outside of my specialist area, I managed to use industrial
scale machinery in order to meet my deadlines and clients expectations.
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| Figure 1: Miniature sample |
Over this project, I have been experiencing presentation and learning
the skill to sell my work to real life clients.
For my self- initiated project, I have been
exploring how to illustrating in response to my interest study of birds.
This unit develops narrative drawing and allows me to use these skills into
imaginary drawings. These Drawings have become my blueprint, which makes me
feel more confident using the machine to draw free stitch. I know feel as one
with the machine to create these pieces. This is more fluent and allows my
creativity with sketches be reflected within the fabric. The samples are now
equally as good as the sketches.
One of my strengths is composition and how I can
transfer that into drawings.
In terms of
composition, in this units I did not forced myself to experiment more with
different approaches. I did not had enough risk taking, I want to explore more
new techniques, but at the same time I knew what is my strengths and I practice
on it.
I believe
presenting this work to the client was an experience in which I gained a lot of
learning in terms of having to respond immediately to questions and to be able
to sell a product to them. It was novel
to be in a position to sell, rather than in my studio space where I am making
and people are interested by sight rather than price and scale.
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| Figure 2: Textile |
Knowing less is more and the use of space in this scale. Looking
at the figures of the birds (characters), the outline that I used was too
harsh. For the eye draw into the black and dark blue area.
Making a large scale piece tested my knowledge of how to be
aware of space and texture and how it is viewed.
There is a larger process involved with
editing a large scale piece.
The
perspective of the viewer has an impact on the type of outline I use for the
body. Harsh lines have been unpicked which makes the body softer when near to
the piece. I am trying to suggest shapes
and patterns rather than putting all the detail into the body itself.
