My project was centred around homelessness. I wanted to bring light to real stories making a personal response to the problem. I started my project looking into a wide range of research and then I honed down on a more specific and relevant information. I used a personal connection (my Mum) who has had real experience in the field of homelessness and have used her stories of people to make my three final pieces. I used different colour pallets to show different points of views as well as different stories.
During my time with this project it made me realise how bad the problem is, walking around Bristol to gather photographs and information I was saddened by the sheer amount of people sleeping rough. When doing my final pieces I ran into one trouble with the text I was putting over my drawings. I took inspiration from the illustrator Olivier Kugler and I think you can see that in my final pieces, however I think I did not succeed as much as I could have in trying to find the same effect that Kugler has in his work.
My favourite of the three pieces that I have made is ‘Samuel’ as I really enjoy the colours and I think the cool blue colours really mirrors the cold and harshness of sleeping rough.
I think as my project moved on from the beginning it became more and more clear that I could not create my desired final pieces, with restrictions because of COVID and imperfect timings for arrangements that I made with a soup kitchen. I think if I was to do this project again I would probably choose a less serious topic as I think my art style does not accommodate that kind of tone.
On the other hand I think that what worked well in my pieces was the compiling of drawings from reference making the scenes look busy which I think stresses the problem as well as create a visually interesting illustration. I also think that the text, although wasn’t as effective as I wanted it to be, brings a really good level of information to illustration level. Which is something I wanted to achieve.
Looking at the materials that I used to create my final pieces I think that the digitalisation was the right step forward and I think that it may have been needed to create the poster/PSA kind of aesthetic I wanted. However I think redoing these pieces as watercolour or just simply ink and paper drawings may have even more subtle and perhaps more beneficial to my work.
In conclusion I think my project could have gone very different ways and I am pleased with what I have achieved, however I think that if I was able to go to the soup kitchen I would have had a much more substance to my work and it would have really bring forward a more personal response which is what I really wanted to do.
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