Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Image evaluation

Taking the image module has been a very useful experience. Throughout the weeks I have learnt image as practice and what makes an image. The main skill I have learnt and enjoyed is "type as image" and I have been  able to understand how to transform type in to illustration while still being legible. I did this in the brief I chose on my own and made a type face of beards, I wanted to keep it simple and only chose to add eyes, adding a nose and mouth made it harder to see that it was a letter. I then made t-shirt transfers from theses letters, packaged them and called it "A Type of Beard". Unfortunately when getting my alphabet printed I  forgot that I needed to print the letters backwards so that when they got transferred they would be the right way, I would have printed them again but it was expensive.
I think this module has forced me to leave my comfort zone and try new methods and experiment more which has increased my range of skills and confidence in other areas. The length of the briefs were all very short, ranging between one and two weeks, this made you think of an idea and go with it. I think this was a good way or working, I kept thinking I wouldn't have any time to make good work but instead I created a lot of good work in a quick time. However because of the short amount of time and my concentration focusing on getting the work done I found it hard to research in depth.

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