Style consists of seven exercises and one assignment:
- Identifying tools and materials
- Museum posters
- A children’s book cover
- A menu card
- A tattoo
- Visual distortion
- Character development
- Assignment 4 – Magazine illustration
My reflections on the work
Before I started PART 4, I set a number of personal objectives. These are outlined below along with how I performed against each.
| Description of work | Target no. hours | Actual no. hours |
| Identifying tools and materials | 15 | |
| Museum posters | 31 | |
| A children’s book cover | 23 | |
| A menu card | 8 | |
| A tattoo | 9.5 | |
| Visual distortion | 15 | |
| Character development | 19 | |
| Assignment 4 – Magazine illustration | 23.5 | |
| Total hours: | 90 | 144 |
PART 4 – personal goals
My main goal was:
More drawing, keep developing ideas in the sketch book, keep up the pace
The objectives I’ve set myself in Part 4 were:
| Objective | How I performed |
| Tutor comments/feedback
Within the Learning Log, include more sketchbook drawing as part of documenting the thinking process. |
Achieved – as evidenced in the Learning Log |
| Continue life drawing classes | Achieved – I continued with life drawing classes. There is now a summer break so I’ll need to find another class until September |
| Sign-up to a silk screen printing course | Achieved – I’m booked on a weekend introductory course in July |
| Be experimental and don’t be afraid to fail | Achieved – I felt Exercise 6 Visual distortion and Exercise 7 Character development and Assignment 4 were all experimental for me. I felt that the final artwork in Visual distortion failed but the process was instructive |
| Continue to collaborate on personal and OCA exercises and assignments | Achieved
I was really pleased with the 5-page comic An unknown intimacy I created as a collaboration. I am also meeting with other OCA students on urban sketching sessions. |
| Read ‘Illustration A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective’ | Partially achieved – I’m about half way through the book and will complete it during PART 5. |
| Complete PART 4 in under 10-weeks | Achieved – I completed PART 5 in approx. 6-weeks. |
My other observations/achievements during PART 4:
- Something clicked in me during this period. My sketching has become more fluid and I’m gaining confidence in drawing in public.
- I know I need to improve my figure drawing skills and the best way to do that is to keep practicing.
Illustration 