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For this exercise, I was asked to create a mood board for one of the words from my previous exercise; ‘.Turning words into pictures’. I chose the word travel as this is something that I am very passionate about and would therefore be quite interesting for me to create a mood board for. I tried to create seasons within the move mood board trying to blend seamlessly from winter to summer as best as I could.
For the words into pictures exercise I was tasked to pick a word from the following list;
Just reading this back to type this blog, I’ve realised that it actually said choose a word from the list And I actually read this wrong and did all of the list. However, I did find that doing all of the list was quite valuable as that was quite a big difference in the quality of the drawings from word to word. For the word childhood, I struggled to know what to draw. On reflection, I think that this is because a lot of the things in childhood are not necessarily objects but feelings and experiences. In contrast, when I did the drawings for the word kitchen I was able to create quite accurate drawings and fill the whole page easily. For other words that I do not have many personal associations with I also struggled to come up with ideas for images.
I found this task quite challenging but also quite fun and think that this is something I would like to do more of however I also see that drawing from observation would be valuable first to build my visual memory so that I can more accurately draw and recall objects.
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