Over the xmas break I started considering the following, and worrying a bit about the outcomes for this module:
My linocut has developed a lot throughout this project and improved so much since my proposal and ideas for the final outcomes that I feel like my outcomes aren't as good as the level they should be now. I've tried to incorporate the new skills I've been developing on into the final designs, but I've really been struggling. What I've developed on is my detail and mark making as well as composition, but the final pieces for this project are floating images with restrictions certain kinds of restrictions on the marks that I feel I can make. Because they are existing objects, I've been struggling because I can't create more detail than there actually is.
In a way I'm really pleased with the developments I feel I've made as they boosted my confidence. But then my confidence was knocked as I tried to create all my final outcomes at the level that I've been wanting them to be.
A couple days after writing this though, and reflecting on it, I figure:
I'm being too much of a stress head. Of course I can create some interesting, detailed floating illustrations. I just need to get my head out of my ass and stop thinking 'I can do more' because if anything, it's more successful for me to be able to cut beautiful, detailed single objects than to rely on a background or surrounding details.
I can do this and I will do. I've just got to push through the crappy work to get to the good stuff.
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