Review

After my portfolio review with Mark Howe on friday it suddenly dawned on me how unprepared and unfocused I really am despite my own vain attempts to try render this a trait I do not have.
I am aware that I have not recently devoted enough time to the research and thinking stage of the SOI for the FMP due to my own unorganisation in regards to my dissertation. I have been refining it, which I am only realising takes three times as longer than I do writing it.
So I thought that since I have not devoted enough time to researching OUGD303 even though I am aware of the importance of clarifying exactly it is what I want to be working towards or in some cases working for.

Mark put emphasis on this by saying that I clearly can illustrate, but it is not a means to an end. My portfolio that was not put together whole heartedly reflected my own practice based on the poorly presented work that was screenshots from previous pdfs. Simple rectification of looking at how companies/agencies/illustrators present their work and finding a format that works for my work.

He also mentioned something that came through in my feedback tutorial: the inability to finish or complete my work to a presentable standard that if rectified, would give me a much stronger design presence.
Something that works for him was a scrapbook, collecting ephemera to collate interests and influences for potential projects. Blogs is the counter for this, since I can effectively document and comment on various design and illustration that drives me or inspires me.
Conclusively, I need to:

- Get focused.

- Find out who influences or drives my design.

- Who I want to work for.

- How their work is used and applied.

- Look how professionals present their work.

- Establish a colour palette to help unify my work.

- Identify briefs that will help me achieve these goals.