When we were first given this task of creating a story based upon our lockdown experience, I was very excited. I spent a long time thinking about what kind of story I wanted to tell, and initially I wanted to summarise my whole time in lockdown.

However, when speaking to Tony, I realised that this format didn't work, and felt too disjointed to be a full story. From that conversation, I decided that I wanted to focus in on my experience being a key worker during lockdown as I thought that it would be a story very unique and individual to me. Therefore, I went back to the drawing board and re-planned the comic.

I was much happier with the way this version of the comic turned out - I felt that it was much more fluid, and made a lot more sense. The style of the comic was heavily inspired by the cartoons I watched when I was younger, specifically 'The Amazing World of Gumball'.

I also used my Pinterest board to collect and show inspiration and what influenced my process.

     Next, I went on to create the line art and then colour and finalise the first page spread.

I'm was extremely happy with how this turned out. The textures I added, I feel, really compliment the style and give the spread more depth. Also, the font is very reflective of the borders of each box, meaning that they work very well together. Because of this, I felt I could move on and carry this look and style into the other spreads.

  As I used Procreate to make my comic, I was able to have a recorded time-lapses of all of my work, which worked out really well in displaying my full process. After all of the 'story' pages of my comic were complete, I created my front and back cover to finish everything off. Then the final step was piecing everything together.

Overall, I am so beyond happy with my comic. I think you can tell that I really enjoyed it, and really did put a lot of work and effort in. By far, I think this has been my favourite task this module - I really do prefer the longer pieces that we can really sink our teeth into and take our time with to get right.

The task of the week this time was to study faces, and the way light falls on them at differing angles. Faces and busts are one of the things I'm most confident in as I love to draw them, so I do so quite a lot. I began by starting with basic head shapes and poses, and then progressively I added more detail. I also decided to experiment with was of applying tone in my last two drawings, through the use of different marks and colour.

The second task of this section of work was to apply the perspective practice from the previous week, and to apply it to real subjects, alongside understanding tone. I decided to mostly tackle unique architecture, which was definitely a challenge as they all featured complicated shapes layered upon each other. The most difficult was the cat shaped house, but, this was the building I learned the most from.

I also decided to draw my desk, as that also involved rather complicated shapes and angles, This also took quite a while to get right, but I think I got there in the end.

Overall, this week, I feel, was so important to my learning as I found it very challenging, but learned how vital a basic knowledge of perspective and tone is in order to apply illustration to the real world.

In this first week of our second section of the drawing module, we were tasked with going back to the basics with perspective. To tackle this effectively I decided to take on each type of perspective one at a time. 

It was definitely very useful to revisit the topic, and I could feel the improvement from my previous attempt. Despite this, some shapes and angles I still found to be quite difficult to get correct, so did take slightly longer. After this I attempted to draw my wardrobe to put the perspective practice into real context. This was much more difficult, as the object is much more intricate, however, I think the end result is still quite accurate.

This task, much like the last, was all about drawing on location, observing and recording people from real life. Although generally I really love drawing people, I found this task quite difficult and stressful. I didn't anticipate how different it would be drawing people from life in comparison to the urban sketching of the previous task. Their movements, and general form caused quite a lot of complications, and capturing the character of the person was even more difficult. However, I feel that by the end of the week that I had improved quite a lot, and felt visibly more comfortable. It is definitely a practice that I see the importance of for my development as an illustrator, therefore, I will try my best to continue drawing people from life in the future.

Urban sketching is the observation and recording the world around you. I was so excited when we received this task as landscapes and buildings are definitely one of my weak points, so I knew this would be a great week to develop. I went into the week in the mindset of not being overly critical of anything going into my sketchbook, as any work is a step forward. Because of this, I think I enjoyed the week much more than I expected. The approach I took was very carefree, and loose, which I believe is portrayed in my art work. I found that a lot of the time, the mistakes and inaccuracies in the images gave the pieces character. Rather than being exact, calculated replicas of what I saw, they were more descriptions of the areas feeling and sense.

I also think the task was quite a nice breath of fresh air in current times. To be able to wander outside and not really think too much about what I was creating was extremely relaxing, and calming. I definitely think I'll find myself urban sketching more on my adventures out if I ever need a break, or time to myself.