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DILEMA

I don't know what to do... I am very excitable over creating this poster. I had gone through my design process of research, exploration and aesthetic and this is a very emotional and stressful process and then it knocked me 6 with the thought of going back to the beginning!

The night before, I created a to do list of everything I was going to complete today and it was achievable within the time and i was buzzing to get cracking on it...

I aprreciate that the design for this poster is very busy. To me it answers the brief. It sums up my illustrated self... 

• It is colourful like the Delia Derbyshire illustrations I created and beginning to use coloured paper
• It uses my continuous line drawings that I have begun to use as a tool to draw like most of my sketches towards the end of the year
• It incorporates looseness and my exploration with simplicity through the tap dancers which where a development from my flamenco dancers
• It combines digital and analogue. Digital is something new to me at university but I really enjoy using the Wacom and I have developed this in my Context of Practice
• It also combines my process of finding my favourite parts of a sketchbook (the sketchbook being this year) and combining everything into a collage.

These are the key elements that I feel are really important and resonate with this year. I also feel that this poster captures me as a person and as my friend said "its you on a page". It is very bold and colourful (like my character) but also creates a pattern (which is like all of the clothes that I wear and part of my identity)

I understand that maybe from this mock up it looks confusing and busy... I guess I won't truly know what it will look like until it is created to scale. I also wanted to try out the POSCA pens on the different colours of paper to see how they would react to the different colours.

• have to get the balance of it being interesting to look at but not scare people off for being too complex
• This is the proposed alternative. To take one of the 4 elements to portray in a poster. The outcome of this would be very brave and striking. We did this as an exercise for Visual Language (simplifying someone putting on a life jacket) and I remember finding it very stressful and it being one of the only tasks I have ever given up on-I hated it... 

I really appreciate that this would be a very bold way to portray an aspect my illustrated self but I wasn't feeling excited about it and I really struggle to create art if I am not excited about it.

Therefore I was left in a panic... do I do what I am advised to do or do I do what I want to do?
This made me consider "what is success"?
Is success what gets you high grades?
Is success being proud of the final product?
Is success other people liking your work?

Decisions are something that I have noticed to be something I struggle with and that I want to improve. This became apparent at my sticker brief where I made multiple designs and I couldn't chose which one to submit as the final image.
Was it was my tutor liked? was it what I liked? was it the image that fit best? was it the most simple image? was it what my friends liked?-but they all liked different ones!

So this was eating my up, I had to make a decision to begin making something as there isn't much time!
I was very stressed out by this and asked advise of various people that I respect a lot. They cemented that I should do my design because I am so excited about it BUT to make some alterations, to consider how I can simplify it or change it a little bit.

I have also realised that all of my work this year has been aesthetic rather than conceptual. I just feel that if I was to pursue this other idea it isn't summative of my year and I just really want to make this other one!!!