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Exercise: Getting the gist

‘Solo brides’ – For this exercise I chose an article from Cosmopolitan magazine. The article was about strong business women in Japan that were opting to have a wedding ‘experience’ without a groom. They would have a photo shoot in a wedding dress, a cake and a dinner where they can have provided a dinner guest if they feel too lonely dining alone.

I used watercolour to create this image in which I was trying to capture a slightly crazy story.

First I drew the image in pencil and reworked until I was happy with it. Then I traced the image and transferred it to watercolour paper. This way it was a cleaner image. I then proceeded to paint with watercolour. I did use very light colours, which maybe I should have been bolder with my colours. I naturally tend to be very reserved with colour and this is something I have to push past, to not be scared to use bold colours. I used I my watercolour for this image, I also used it to outline.

I’m still getting used to painting as a medium so faces I find challenging to paint, as well as fine details in general. I did enjoy creating this image though as the article was very interesting.

And so I begin…

I have been a little delayed in starting my degree as I had an Illustration job come in. This is ongoing; designing backgrounds, obstacles and characters for a phone app computer game. I am really enjoying doing this  as the subject matter it is all entirely new for me. This makes it challenging, however I am learning a lot from doing it. It is a very time consuming project and is very hard to balance with working 6 days per week and uni work. I am struggling for time, but am keen to make a start now on my first assignment.

I have just finished the Introductory course which I found very useful. It has hopefully prepared me for what is ahead and has given me the tools and methods I need to employ going forward. I feel that I would have been quite lost without this, so I am grateful that this course is available and I did not want to start my degree until I had completed this. Although I chose not to do the final assignment as I am starting my first degree assignment instead. I now feel that I am ready to move on to my degree, although I must admit I am a little nervous as I have never done one before and really want to do well.