This Post-it shows how I began to organise my life after returning home from Colophon, having seen the standard of work and having exhibited myself there, I noticed the amount of photography that exists in the magazine world and the power that it has in imagery. It seems that there was a stereotype for illustration still existing as being merely decorative - yet my work never tries to primarily be decorative yet explain an idea that interests me in a aesthetically pleasing manner. My work on the whole is rounded but not diluted and seems to have its strengths in the digital genres, but by resisting the urge to pigeon hole myself into one particular style of illustration my work has been able to draw different inspirations up to now and aided my own style to develop. The trip made me a lot more determined to make something out of myself as a professional creative, and revealed that the ride isn't going to be easy.
It gave me confidence to hear professionals and public alike being into my approaches and I decided that my work needed to continue its professional conversion and to achieve this I thought that the introduction of my own portrait photography could provide me with a new library of imagery to work with. I want to challenge myself and having never really worked with portrait photography before I thought that this could add a new depth to my portfolio and help me to possibly collaborate with photographers further down the line.
The idea is to mix the obvious traits of false personalities in a manner that displays both faces at once. The idea is to just play digitally, organically and reverting back to the very first ideas of the project. The top image shows this done very simply by mixing two expressions very crudely into one - yet the results are still interesting with the left image actually reflecting a realistic portrait.
It gave me confidence to hear professionals and public alike being into my approaches and I decided that my work needed to continue its professional conversion and to achieve this I thought that the introduction of my own portrait photography could provide me with a new library of imagery to work with. I want to challenge myself and having never really worked with portrait photography before I thought that this could add a new depth to my portfolio and help me to possibly collaborate with photographers further down the line.The idea is to mix the obvious traits of false personalities in a manner that displays both faces at once. The idea is to just play digitally, organically and reverting back to the very first ideas of the project. The top image shows this done very simply by mixing two expressions very crudely into one - yet the results are still interesting with the left image actually reflecting a realistic portrait.
The image to the left shows my very own pair of eyes with numerous expressions - this was a quick experiment to see how my expressions look to others. Relating back to the articles that I read about judging peoples appearances and personalities - the face and eyes in particular are obvious symbols of someone's intentions or personality and I wondered whether or not it was easy to mis-read peoples true intentions and/or feelings through this physiognomy.
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