Peer Feedback
From taking part in a group critique with my course mates, I gained a good amount of feedback about the work produced in my visual journal, and where to take it further. I had a lot of positive feedback about the strength of my ideas and how I have used research to develop them, the use of motifs and symbolism in my drawings, and the overall visual quality of my work. I was really pleased to hear that my gouache work was effective, as I have been battling with gouache throughout the course.
Some suggestions I received were based on exploring medias such as dip pens more to create different visual qualities. I have tried to use dip pen in my visual journal so far, however I feel like it really limits the way I draw and is something I need to work on. One of the main discussions in my critique, was based on the way that I have used plants to refer to Calvino's upbringing around botany and plants, and how this aided his inquisitive nature and the way he creatively thinks of plots etc. So far I have been using images of calvino and plants to create some sort of link, however I feel that the images produced so far have been really cliche and boring. Based on this opinion, I have been recommended to explore the idea of plants and motifs in different, non cliche ways, which is something I am really going to need to think about.
Self Evaluation
So far in my visual exploration, I have really enjoyed using character because I really love drawing people. however I feel that to push my project further, I need to stop looking at Calvino in the obvious ways and start to think more speculatively, referring back to the idea of not using cliches. In terms of improvement, I think it's just the general breadth of ideas so far, as it appears to be quite limited. I intend to start looking at aspects of his novels once again, and bringing them together with the research that I have found so far. Throughout my whole academic, creative career, I have always felt the need to be precious in sketchbooks, which really limits me an my idea generation. I need to work on playing more in my sketchbook using more wet media, as I don't tend to use it a lot.
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