Over the summer I thought it best that I found a way to keep myself busy and regularly reflective // involved with my illustration work. Seeing as blogger worked for my uni work, I decided to try it out for my personal keeping also. I started the blog around early July and updated it a few times over the summer months and was pleasantly surprised with the attention the blog got! I tried to keep the content illustration // creative based, though did delve into lifestyle and 'personal' themes.
Though illustration is what I study as a profession, I think it's important to remember that as a person, I'm an awful lot more than just that. My work always feels very personal, and being able to articulate and communicate emotion through my work is something I've become rather good at. It's a skill I wouldn't have been able to develop without the integral link with illustration and my personal life. One has always fed into the other and this has allowed my work to open up into more complex and deep conceptual and emotionally evocative levels. I ended my PPP presentation last year highlighting that one of my strengths was "being really good at feeling things". Being passionate, driven and caring have been things that as a person have evolved my practice, and this blog was a nice joining of those things.
Though I know the academic year will probably not allow for much time in updating this blog, it's certainly something I would like to keep active. It forces me to make time for personal projects and allows people to understand more about me as a human practitioner and not just a series of illustrations on the web.
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