PPP Tutorial & My Wrestle with Tone of Voice

Third idea for SB2

Before my PPP tutorial I had another idea for my final PPP SB2 piece, this time based on 10 new experiences that I've had at university. Though I still liked the 'ways to destress' idea, this third option seems a lot more personal and reflective. I feel that I could get a lot more from this project in terms of really having to think about myself and my year as a whole rather than stereotypical problems//experiences that everyone else has had.

After the tutorial was over, I decided to revise a few of these statements to make them more 'university//illustration' based for my final piece.

Cut out tests

I started thinking about my final pieces too; as previously stated although the bunting was a nice idea, it was very restricting in terms of scamping and getting the illustrations to fit. Something I've wanted to explore further since seeing the work of Philippa Rice, was the notion of illustration as something 3D and tangible. I really want to experiment with ceramics, though given the short timescale of this project it's something I'll pursue in my own time. For this project however, I thought it would still be nice to try out papercut illustrations in real world settings, I did enjoy this process during my 'I see faces' sad fawn GIF and would like to try it out further.

Personal sketchbook pages

During the tutorial I raised my current struggle with tone of voice. That I felt lost in a limbo of what I wanted my style to be. While I enjoy doodling and drawing in a tighter style as it's something that I'm used to and fairly comfortable in, personal sketches such as the ones shown above have uncovered a new style that I feel is very much my own and not a reproduction of something already previously established. However sometimes these drawings don't turn out how I want them too, and I'm still not sure how they work. It seems that when I'm drawing from imagination my sketches are reminiscent of a style that I've practiced and studied many times before, and although still personalised and my own they fit into an already pre-existing 'style' of illustration. However when drawing from reference, it seems that the things I've learnt within the past year, about shape and media and tone of voice, seem to merge into something that is largely my own. I still feel very lost with my tone of voice, which kind of feels like the artistic equivalent of an identity crisis.