Responsive - Odd Type Artboards and evaluation

Evaluation

This was probably my favourite brief as it was working with a material that I love, and I get to be part of an anthology which is filled with other your artists and writers.

Out of the two stories I was given to read over, I chose the story ‘Rhythm hit’ as I had so many ideas of how to create imagery for the story when reading through. I really enjoyed the process of analysing the story, picking out information about the characters and environment so I could us this detail in my illustrations.

The challenge for me during this project was creating something purely from text. Normally with my paper art, I work from a range of images and just create something based off them, but with this, I had to read over the story, and picture the characters going about their life.

As I was to create 3 illustrations for the story, I needed to pick out bits that obviously were all too close to eachother but also told main parts of the story.

I chose a main bit at the beginning where the assistant didn’t really have much going on in his life, and was down all the time. The second where suddenly he would be getting texts, ones he’d have to memorise in order to do his job right. And the last, which I think is and iconic bit in the story, where the murder drives him home and they sit and talk for a while.

The images on their own may not tell the story, as when I asked for feedback they liked what I had done, but didn’t really understand. This didn’t really bother me, as the illustrations will be accompanied by the text when published.

I love all the positive feedback I got both from crits and from the people working on the anthology, it was as really great to talk with the writer to get his opinion on my designs before I began making.

With this I knew communication with the curators would be really important, so I created something they liked, so I tried to ask as much as possible about my work and what they wanted, what they would change. So it was great to get that feedback. And I’d continue to be this interactive with my clients in the future as it was such a big help to me to find out what they want.