The practical part of my dreams project
hasn’t had much progress in the past 7 weeks. All I’ve managed to get done so
far is establish a few sketches from the dreams I’ve had recently, and I even
found that part difficult!
I think the main reasoning for this might
be that I’m still uncomfortable with the fact that everyone around me has
settled on their own techniques and styles and I’m still not ready to make that
step. It’s put me off the main part of the project—the “doing” part.
I started off with some sketches from
various dreams and put them together to see if there were any stories that
looked more interesting than others. Then I set out a few of these stories in
rough compositions, making them a little more like comic book stories. I also
tried adding bits of texture in them, just to see if they looked any more
pleasing at this stage. It was just experimenting really, which was pretty fun
and gave me some interesting results.
When I reviewed the work with the tutors,
they helped me to realize that just making them into comics would be pulling
the dream idea away from itself; dreams are stories in non-linear format, they
don’t always make sense, and they blur together to make new dreams.
I feel like what I have so far is a decent
starting point but it should have been the starting point for work from about
four weeks ago so now I have quite a bit of catching up to do. However, after a
week of feeling confused and demotivated, I feel like I can get on top of this
quite easily by looking at it from another standpoint. I’m trying out a style I
used a long time ago with my James and the Giant Peach book cover, as people
always seem more drawn to that than other pieces in my portfolio. There will be
a lot more shape than line, added textures, and it will have a more playful and
jointed feel about it.
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