WOW
I thought I was stressed in the last blog but holy cow. That stress has multiplied by 10000 today. We had our big class crit session today, so we had to lay out our progress and plans and page spreads on our desks and walk round to look at everyones stuff.
It was literally only then, in the exact moment I was pulling my sketchbooks out of my bag to lay them on the table, that I realised that it was really only the street-view art that I'd been doing that was making me truly happy. And then I got into thinking "god I wish I could just draw lots of little shop fronts for my book..... oh wait, I can".
WHY HAS IT TAKEN ME THIS LONG TO REALISE?!
I think with all the importance put onto having a strong idea with deep meanings we learnt in A levels and GCSE is literally ingrained into me, and now its all I really tend to think of when I start a project. I have so many ideas, how can I communicate them all? Which ones can I combine successfully? How can I show I've used as many materials and processes as possible?
When really, I need to learn that sometimes if you don't really have the most complex idea to start with then you can make it special by executing it really really well and working hard on the craft of the thing. (Rant over)
So finally moving forward (hopefully):
- work with the idea of the ghosts of past memories as shown through streetviews of current/abandoned shops
- MAKE THOSE PAGE SPREADS
-make a front and back cover
-print and bind
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