Eval.

OUIL405 STUDIO BREIF 1 EVALUATION - Boring Part
This project has spurred me into new terrain of practical and experimental research, I believe there is a long way to go but my work is now developing a certain quality from this project that feels to have informed my entire practise as opposed to have just been used to execute this one project. The journey I have taken in this project has been long, and started from climbing and drawing trees with a pencil crayon and 4am to producing vivid; engaging pieces of work based around executions and the human condition. I feel, my first hand research was somewhat lacking but that was mainly due to the fact of my chosen subject, I could not witness and execution and other such things, I did however visit H.M Prison in Armley, took photos and got a general feeling of the place which in the end turned out to be the turning point of my project and spurred on the body of work I have produced.
     The concepts research, informed my ideas in a way first hand research would of limited me, I feel i did extensive research into my chosen area and really dug deep in what I was going to create, I feel towards the end of the project I was almost consumed by the vast of of Ideals I had, and the very nature of my project lent itself to such. I feel the strongest part of my book, is the part that can't really be measured. Taking all the facts; images; feelings I had and making them into a piece of work that was in a work selfish, I was my take; and my feelings towards what I had learnt which drove my ambition to create this. This however is a double edged sword In that, in that the book is almost now a very personal extension of myself that gives it a very vague interpretation been that maybe to understand It you would of had to do the research I did, and I feel it could be too easily disregarded or even overlooked.
     The work I have done, I feel would not of been done without the most I put into researching illustrators, especially and to the end almost solely Ralph Steadman, His work; style; essence really fit hand in hand into how I wanted to work and what I wanted to make, It works so well for me because I knew how much I liked how he approached working but I didn't have to copy things to feel like i'd done something it was just taking bits and pieces that really helped me in this project. Again however there is the pitfall that I may have found something I liked and was happy with and stuck withit instead of tirelessly looking for even more things to inspire myself which can leave work looking almost one dimensional.
   I feel this project has been hard for me, Ive had lots of ups and down and lots of times where I was almost clueless as to what I was going to hard and how, but from the beginning to where I am now, Can't really be further apart, I know I've exhausted a-lot of avenues before I decided on where I've ended up but, resting on my laurels isn't going to help and re-examing my work is it clear there was more I could of done. In the end my book is shining example of what could of been, while creating a different feel to other books, and almost being what I wanted its still a million miles away from what I wanted, I feel the artwork sometimes got lot in itself or I got lost in teh artwork and sometimes needed to take a step back and really remember what I was trying to do, but a lot of that is down to time management I believe.