Creating Work For My Final Zine

After creating paintings, illustrations and collages at A4 and A3 size as well as creating them in my pocket sketchbook at A6 size, I have concluded that I prefer making content in the smaller sketchbook instead of at a larger size. I don’t feel as if the paintings I was creating at A3 size looked effective at all, I didn’t really feel confident i them at all. Although this is due to a few factors; the paintings I were creating were with acrylic paints which I don’t have much experience in using at all, I was trying too hard to make the look realistic and i felt like I needed to go back to the previous workshops and reflect back on the success of my illustration which were effective as I wasn’t trying to make them look realistic or anything, and I was using materials that I was more confident in using like oil pastels and brush paints and fine liners.

I the created the same style of paintings using my fingers, as I couldn’t find any paintbrushes, but at a much smaller scale around A5. These looked far better as I remembered the other workshop methods and listened to some music while focusing on the form and the shapes creating images that I wanted to, not as they looked very realistic. As I was happy with these I would consider using them towards my final zine by incorporating them into collages. I also found it was easier to create a more accurate proportions and scale of the body than painting A3 which I felt like distorted the shape of the person I was drawing in a bad way.

Due to the success of my smaller illustrations and paintings I have decided to utilise my pocket sketchbook further as I felt like I was making beautiful little illustrations that I could experiment further with and create more dynamic pieces unique to my style by creating lots of more illustrations that that scale, which seemed to work best for me and to stop using the bigger sketchbook as I didnt like the images I was creating out of that.