A Day in the Life brief personal evaluation

At first this brief was really intimidating for me as I found the content very heavy and serious, and I initially had difficulty adapting my thinking process to how to handle these topics of pollution and death and corporate deception and political ignorance while still making interesting and appealing work. I feel that I found my feet once we had some feedback from both Matt and each other in the exercise following our roughs, as I found that everyone was having some difficulty adapting to the content of these articles and we just had to focus on our ideas and let our work be driven by concept and feeling rather than a dependence on "looking good" or being funny or anything like that. In this sense I have overall found this brief pretty eye opening to the world of editorial illustration and the task of representing my own personal response to an issue in a piece of work effectively enough to communicate that thought to others without the use of words. I also used this opportunity to experiment with different media and I have been carrying what I have learned in this area over to my drawing in visual language which I think has benefitted my development there too. I suppose my main thought at the end of this brief is that I'm glad that it was bloody hard because it's helped me test myself and pushed me in ways creatively that I might not have gone if we weren't given such relevant and important issues to tackle.