Visual Skills: Typology Poster

What did I find successful?

• Monochrome: shades of one colour allowed the whole work to have a sense of harmony.

• The tone of voice: friendly, naive, childlike, playful and charming.

• Artist / contextual research: researching typologies and using a simplistic drawing approach I'm not familiar

with (influenced by the work of Ben Javens, Marcus Oakley and Philippa rice) that isn't in-line with my own systems of drawing, helped me to push my image-making and give the poster a sense of coherency.

• Sequential order of illustrations: really appropriating the 'how to' format in an easy, readable way.

• Use of materials: mixing paper cut with Copic Markers for a whole range of pink tones.

• Sketchbook development: exhaustively iterating image-making to find what worked the best for that chosen instruction.

• Time management: my ability to quickly catch up with my work load after encountering real-life issues.

What didn't work?

• Time management: initially the inability to juggle real-life events and my work.

• Time management: in terms of producing illustrations quickly with the processes I chose to implement.

• Typography: Effectively creating my own brush font even though I experimented with a brush pen, calligraphy and

dip pens and markers. This is something I hope to push further with another brief.

 Peer Feedback:
• I approached my peers to gather my own feedback as I had missed out on the opportunity the day before.

• I think this shows my initiative and self-sufficiency to make up for lost time and achieve what everyone else had, despite my initial set-backs of a poorly Guide Dog and having to travel back home with limited supplies.
• I'm very happy with my feedback and feel a sense of success with my poster.