I found today's crit really useful, I think because I'd done so many small ideas in preparation that I found it difficult to sift through them and find which ones I thought might actually work when developed. Seeing where everybody else's work is going is always interesting and helps me get a handle on what I'm trying to do, because I feel when you're sat in your room doing half a hundred drawings it's easy to get lost in your own thought process and become unable to stand back from what you've done. But hearing the groups ideas and suggestions has definitely helped me streamline my ideas, they decided I should go forward with the simplified character designs, and not get caught up in doing loads of type, the brief is for editorial images anyway so type wouldn't be necessary and probably would just be confusing. My strongest ideas were probably the many Shakespeare squad, and the drawings in which I tried to play with the composition or perspective. In small frames like these I'm used to feeling a bit boxed in and going for quite simple vignette work, but I want to step away from that and use composition to imply a larger world outside the frame of my illustration, to imply the vast reach of Shakespeare's work and just to try and give my own work some depth.
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