Visual Skills: Editorial Outcomes

Square: "The albatross hangs heavy around out necks with a weight that defies calculation"

Portrait: "Albatross corpses rot away to reveal the plastic rubbish they have consumed"

Landscape: "Are we to use our gift of life to snuff out other life forms?"

Peer Feedback:

• Textures!!! Colours are so calm and soothing - work really well to draw me in.

• Really nice how much you managed to get our of two colours!

• Use of glowing light sources draws the eye to the ideas being communicated whilst simultaneously
differentiating the foreground and background.

• Love how the use of colour draws you into the piece, line quality is really varied and cool!

• That use of colour and shape - wonderfully unique, completely fluent lines.

• Utterly AMAZING use of colour and texture! Blown away by the quality of this work. It's so, so beautiful!

• The candle snuffing out the light of the world! Such a clever and visually interesting idea

• Amazing compositions!

• I love the use of colour as it shows light and shadow really well.

Peer Critique:

• Maybe you could refine them a little more / focus on where the light source is coming from?

• I think maybe mono printing or screen printing would have worked really well with these images.

• Maybe try a less digital process? More manual and minimalist perhaps. Simple is good!

• Could make images more simplistic and then use mark making to add points of detail.

Reflection & Evaluation:

• I am really proud of how my editorial pieces turned out. The colour palette I chose in the end works effectively

to provide light sources and focal points and give the work equal temperatures.

• The use of digital media allowed me to complete these pieces on time and work much more successfully;

in contrast to the analogue process of my typology poster.

• Having read my peer feedback, I agree that these images could have worked just as well as screen prints
and the amount of detail could have been reduced by one or two layers.

• These were my creative choices, however, and I did decide to include patterns and textures after
comparing and contrasting more simpler images side-by-side.

• I would like to look into the possibly of screen printing or using paper cut for the final brief in this module.