At this moment in time I am happy with the body of work I have collected. I have focused all my ideas into planning a final piece.
This week I planned to start my final publication for this modual. My tutors had asked for me to explaine my proposal to them. When presenting my final ideas witch I had just spent the last 5 days planning and readying my self to start I was told some information that change all that.
I was told that making a publication digitally isn't the best way to go about this , I was told that it should have a print process. I discussed the situation with my tutors and They was surprised I didn't know. In the brief it does not state that digital print has to be a print prosess.
Has a student I am forever going back and forth to the briefs making sure I'm with in the guidelines and sticking to the brief.
I didn't argue this with my tutors, we dicussed it and they was very helpful in helping me solve this problem buy making me understand how I can adapt plans into making a comic book with in screen print. I feel that I should stress that I'm not arguing this matter but disappointed.
Not only have I spent the last 5 days creating plans of action, getting work ready iv spent the past 2 weeks in 2 sketch books drafting up and creating a body of work just for a comic book with in digital work. I was annoyed that this wasn't brought to my attention before now, I have discussed creating a digital publication 3 times with my tutors I even asked for advice on printing and ways of creating this...and it was understood there was not going to be any print proses in it. There have been other occasions were there has been a brake down in communication. When I was told we couldn't use half tone and then at a later date I was told we could.
In all fairness I did react disappointed and I asked for the brief to be explained to me.
Realising how much work and time it would take to create a comic book in screen print, I knew that the odds was agains me.. All that and plus the fact that I'm not the strongest at screen print. And this project was explained that these should be of high standerds.
My new plan is to go back to my sketch books and find 5 images that I can push forward and make into nice quality screen prints I'm not as confidant about this as I was the digital printing but these are the rules.... I'm not blogging this to through stones or to argue but just to note the situations that have coursed me problems... Situations that have coursed me to take steps back in my progress and to redo work that I have all ready done.
Even though I have solved this situation I'm left rather confused and I feel that a level communication was lost.
Again I can't stress enough that this isn't a rant about tutors or teachings or even the course. I'm just blogging the problems Iv come across in this modual...I need the points. And I can't stress enough that the tutors helped me adapt my work that I thought was pointless and got me back on track.
Iv decided to come away from the comic publication after finding out that it has to be print proses.
To me comics that are silk printed don't look right to me, they look too rushed and un clean. if not done at a very very very high level. I'm not going to create somthing I know I can not execute and I'm defenitly not going to create somthing that I know I won't enjoy looking at when its at its finished stage.
I didn't just come to this decision out of stubbornness. I rote two lists, one of a to do list if I was to make the silk screen publication. And another of a to do list if I was to make 5 prints. I decided to make five print because there is more time I can make to create some realy nice prints that I will be happy with in the end result.
Im still keeping with the theme of mcarthy inspired locations and postapocalyptic. I decided to go back through my sketchbooks looking for some locations that iv drawn for the comic book.
When I found some that I felt I could push forward and develope into some really nice detailed comic style prints I started to mess around with the composition of them. I didn't want to just drag them out of my sketch book and go ahead and create them I felt I needed to experiment with them to show that iv pushed these thumbnails a little more before putting them through photoshop.
I say happy I really mean settling. I was so hyped about making a publication that I had created. Now these ideas I'm coming up with just don't seem as good and don't execute what it is that my body of work has been trying to explore. Yeah they will look nasty and postapocalyptic but there just going to look more like a concept for some game and that's one thing I really didn't want to do. Because these ideas seem bad compared to my original idea, I'm loosing the motivation and the steam to make an effort with new ideas. Suppose I have got my stubborn head on now. I'm starting to think the easier options that I still get marked on but yet will be less time consuming and to get these out of the way and to out focus on my sting...just so uninspired because by the situation and left feeling all over the place.
I tried out a mind map to help me get inspired by somthing else that wasn't a publication...because I wouldn't be happy making a publication in print.
After this brain storm I'm still left disappointed and no motivation for something new.
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