Evaluation

The way in which my piece meets the needs of the brief is that I have made an editorial portrait that can go on to a New Scientist page in the magazine. I went down the route of illustration for this project as I was aware that whatever I choose for this project as an option, I will have to choose for the next one, so I went for the option that I knew I would enjoy. I have also included the caoption of under 20 words to describe the person. I decided that I didn't want to actually describe the person I have drawn as the person is quite close to me therefore I didn't feel comfortable in sharing this, so I asked permission on whether it is possible to make this fictional.
I feel that the strengths of the visual communication in this piece of work is the way that I have produced the illustration. The way that I came across this way of working was by experimenting one afternoon, I had scanned all my drawings into the computer and loaded them into Photoshop and I began trying to neatly trace over the lines, but it wasn't working the way I'd hoped and so I did some quick scribbling over it and I found that it was starting to look interesting and different to anything that I had done before and so I think this is a strength with this piece. The only thing that I think may be a weakness is the choice of words that I used over the mouth. I kept changing my mind, I don't really want the words to be readable as I want the main focus to be on the image and style and also the caption that is meant for the image.. so I made the writing really small so that it doesn't become the main interest on the page.

The audience for this piece of work would be people who read New Scientist as the illustration is based on an article about the psychology of faces. But also I think if this piece was to be a stand alone piece, it could be viewed by anyone, even with or without the caption I am confident that it could work well. A way that I think that this piece could be improved was to be if I had more time to make the piece I would maybe make a series of them of different people. I think that it would look really good in a set of 4 in a row of different colour in each, like the blue is in this piece, maybe a red in a one and orange in another - complimenting colours.

My time keeping in this project I found that I did well, I didn't have as much time as others as I was at Closer Magazine doing work experience for my last 4 days of the project and so I was determined to get all my designing done before I was going away to London and I achieved that. I feel that if I set myself time goals I am more likely to get there if I push myself knowing that I have other things to be doing, it makes a difference for me to push my self that little bit more every time, getting work experience was important to me as having advice from graphic designers and people that I have previously worked with on other magazines gave me that knowledge that getting the experience is key to getting that job. My analysis of the brief was good, I knew what it was that I needed to do and got straight to thinking of ideas for my illustration. I did a small bit of photography research for some inspiration and also editorial photography which I feel did help me get inspired. Through out this project I have done quite a lot of experimentation with drawing - I wanted to a selection of drawings just so that I could decide what it was exactly that I wanted to make this piece look like. The parts that I enjoyed the most in this project is when I was designing and drawing, when I start drawing it begins to get me inspired and I can draw for ages until I find an idea that I really like an this is when I work best.