I’m really happy with my feedback from part four, I’d agree with all of the areas of development and am feeling excited and positive about the same areas too so it’s lovely to feel like I’m on the right track. The main pointers I got were as follows:
- think about ratio of the paper and scale to make sure I can fit everything I want on the page.
- continue combining media particularly with charcoal for the desired energy and rawness.
- keep my individuality and don’t stylise too much or be over-influenced.
Fitting everything on to the paper is definitely a bit of a blind spot for me so that’s good to bear in mind and the other pointers really encourage me towards the work that I was most excited by such as the self portrait. It was interesting that my seated figure came across less well than the reclining figure where I had imagined it might be the other way round, though I can see looking at it now that the seated figure is a lot flatter and more stylised so possibly lacks something of the impact of the other two, she is also such a long slender model that she tends to look idealised anyway so the combination makes it even less real! I’ve also been recommended to be more self critical which is another useful thing to bear in mind – my opinions bounce up and down so much that perhaps I need to come back to each blog entry after a couple of days so I can be a bit more objective about my work. Often I’m not sure what I think of it, however when I really love something I know straight away such as with the self portrait so I’m looking forward to following that path with part 5.
Flora OCA drawing 1 