Visual Skills: How To Poster Roughs

Roughs:

• Making more than one rough highlighted that the first design isn't always the best one.

• I experimented with interlocking illustrations, more structured illustrations and illustrations within the object I will be wrapping.

• The final one, though clever and interesting, may be hard to translate / follow?

• The exercise really allowed me to consider different approaches to my poster's layout, the composition, the images to use and what

would work within the space, how to interlock images to ensure they could be read easily, and so on.

• Pushing ideas further tends to create more outcomes that wouldn't have previously been considered.

 Sketchbook Development:

• Using the concept of iteration and repetition, solving the illustrative problem of translating an action in various ways, I illustrated
multiple responses to the 24 steps in my typology to ensure the final pictures I choose are the most effective ones.

 Peer Feedback:
• Best ideas don't make sense immediately. There's an interplay between language and words.
• Consult an Elf is fab!
• Mathematically!
• Love the way you have displayed your ideas - your pencil tones are brill
• Let it dress itself is cute! (could try on different outfits?)
• I like the tile look you've gone for. The organisation works!
• Really nice style
• Love it! Style is lovely and I like that it's in pencil
• Absolutely love your layout, the illustrations are so neat and tidy and clearly understandable :)
• Ideas are really clever / unique
• Ideas are clever and playful - nice drawings :)
• The ideas are fantastic and really communicate your 'how to' clearly! Love it!

Reflection & Next Steps:
• I now need to choose the rough I will be developing further. From asking my peer group, the typology poster displayed in bubbles
is the clearest and easiest to follow - communicating the process and steps of wrapping a llama with ease.
• What colour will I be using for this monochrome piece? As my idea is a playful one, I want to steer away from shades of grey and opt for a warmer, friendlier tone. Pink or purple would work best alluding to themes of playfulness and nostalgia.
• I need to use an analogue process for the finished poster. Acrylics? Watercolours? Markers? Collage?
I will need to experiment with what I have available at home and in the studio.