Evaluation

At the start of my projects i created a brainstorm of all the characters in alice in wonderland, the ones that stuck out to me , and i created a moodboard with techniques i would like to use , techniques which focused on the gradiend of the paper, such as paper cuttings which go inside the paper and installations which go out; this was my idea which aspired from inside outside and inbetween. From this point i felt i needed to research the characters. To develop my ideas i created a spider diagram for each of the six  individual characters i wanted to use, after i did that i created a mindmap created from pictures i took which inspired me of  the particular characters and also i took images off the internet of the original characters to give me inspiration for the characters i was going to design. When i had enough information on the characters i created six thumbnails in my sketch book of each of the six characters and sketched designs which i could use as my final images to start my techniques with. Some of the characters i had drew six ideas but for some of them i could only think of three or four designs before i found the one i really liked. To develop my ideas i researched a few artists who specialised in the techniques i wanted to use for my final peice such as ,Igor Udishlivy, Holly Levell a textile artist, Hina Aoyam a papercutter artist, Ciara Phelen collage artist, Jen bliss a photographer and digital artist, James Gallager illistaration artist, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck instalation artists; I used these artists as a stepping stone to give me ideas and inspiration and researched about them and put them on my blog. although i was not going to copy all of their ideas, they all gave me iseas to encorperate in my design.

I scanned in my thumnails i drew and with each technique i tried out what ever one looked the best i would choose those ones and not use the rest of that selection simualry to process of elimination. After researching James gallager who is not a conventional illistration artist but he used collages to create his illistration so i experimented a little bit with collages, and i started looking at tutorials on youtube how to create illistrations thats when i started to experiment with pastels  in my sketch book. Holly Level inspred me to use some kinds of textiles although i never used her technique i experimented in my book with fabric and textures og the fabric. I tried to do cut outs inspired by Hina Aoyama but the paper kept on tearing so i could not go as intricate as she did but i tried and i never liked the outcomes to much. I came accross Michael Keck who blended mixed media and that was what i decided to do with all of my experiments combine them into one image.

I really liked this project becaus you could experiment with so much, i chose the textures and mixed media to experiment with the idea of inside outside and inbetween; because i have planned alot of my work out the exam should be straightforward; i wish i had  experimented more and made pracctised my mix media peice but overall i fweel confident about my prep work and ready for the exam.