My peers told me too.
Doing a foundation course initially, I had the opportunity to experience many difference threads of art and design. I had no idea where to go from there and illustration seemed to continuously crop up as a path I should go down.
I want to understand illustration.
I'm interested in how illustration is a somewhat hybrid between art and design. I'm interested in bringing out and balancing both sides. I also like the idea of a piece of drawing being part of a context and giving it dimension.
I want my work to be part of something bigger than myself.
I know that the world of illustration is huge and exciting, I just want to be a part of it and perhaps one day be respected amongst it.
I do like to make pictures.
Although I'm not very good at drawing at all, I do really love and appreciate seeing something that makes me feel or think or react. I want to create images that do this to others - even if I had a body of work which never made me any money or success, but some lonely kid discovered it, really digged it and could relate, that'd be success enough for me.
Illustration and narration
To study art or literature? - I love stories and poems and books, but I also love art. It's nice that they go hand in hand, especially with illustration. I'm so prepared to develop my skills and delve into all parts of this course, but I mainly chose to study this because I have the freedom to carry other passions I have along with it.
Why LCA?
The city.
Compared to where I'm from, the creative scene, especially the alternative art and music scene is so much more rife.
Its a specialist institution.
I like the idea of being amongst like-minded people and being able to talk easily to students and tutors, not only within illustration but who also study other threads of art and design, and being able to learn from them.
The size.
Leeds College of Art seems really honest in its intentions and that all students who attend aren't just numbers - they're individuals. I feel confident in that I will be nurtured into a professional.
My strengths.
I appreciate everything.
Even if I don't like something, I don't dismiss it as not being important. I definitely appreciate how something is beautiful or influential even if it may not resonate with me personally.
I'm not afraid to make shit work.
I totally agree with illustrators making drawings everyday, even if they're rubbish, that's what will push anybody to become great.
I'm not a slave to using one form of media.
Although I really enjoy working with college and found images in particular, I get so excited to use forms of media which are somewhat foreign to me. Recently I worked with ink and brush pens, and it really was a beneficial experience.
My points of improvement.
Digital illustration.
Although I am open to working with new media, I barely use digital. I definitely need to acquire more skills in this area.
Be more open to talking to people.
Especially at the moment, I feel extremely introverted and finding it hard articulating my ideas and sharing my interests. Rather than just reading magazines, blogs, watching films for inspiration, I should try talking to others and take on ideas and advice from them.
At least try to work in more detail.
I usually work with immediacy and somewhat haphazard methods. I would like to be able to effectively work with detail and refinement in a drawing.
Don't doubt myself.
There are so many creative individuals who have made names for themselves, whom I look up to and almost compare my future-self to. I need to remember to just be my own creative mind and develop my own practice rather than emulate others.
Images/artist which inspired me to study illustration.
Robert Crumb
Why LCA?
The city.
Compared to where I'm from, the creative scene, especially the alternative art and music scene is so much more rife.
Its a specialist institution.
I like the idea of being amongst like-minded people and being able to talk easily to students and tutors, not only within illustration but who also study other threads of art and design, and being able to learn from them.
The size.
Leeds College of Art seems really honest in its intentions and that all students who attend aren't just numbers - they're individuals. I feel confident in that I will be nurtured into a professional.
My strengths.
I appreciate everything.
Even if I don't like something, I don't dismiss it as not being important. I definitely appreciate how something is beautiful or influential even if it may not resonate with me personally.
I'm not afraid to make shit work.
I totally agree with illustrators making drawings everyday, even if they're rubbish, that's what will push anybody to become great.
I'm not a slave to using one form of media.
Although I really enjoy working with college and found images in particular, I get so excited to use forms of media which are somewhat foreign to me. Recently I worked with ink and brush pens, and it really was a beneficial experience.
My points of improvement.
Digital illustration.
Although I am open to working with new media, I barely use digital. I definitely need to acquire more skills in this area.
Be more open to talking to people.
Especially at the moment, I feel extremely introverted and finding it hard articulating my ideas and sharing my interests. Rather than just reading magazines, blogs, watching films for inspiration, I should try talking to others and take on ideas and advice from them.
At least try to work in more detail.
I usually work with immediacy and somewhat haphazard methods. I would like to be able to effectively work with detail and refinement in a drawing.
Don't doubt myself.
There are so many creative individuals who have made names for themselves, whom I look up to and almost compare my future-self to. I need to remember to just be my own creative mind and develop my own practice rather than emulate others.
Images/artist which inspired me to study illustration.
William Blake The Tyger from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
David Shrigley - all of his work
Julien Pacaud
Daniel Johnston - all his illustrations
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