Zine Feedback

Feedback from Ben

I had a chat with Ben in the studio about my zine because I was really unsure which direction to take with it. He looked through my work so far and liked some drawings for almost all of my ideas. He reminded me not to make this too complicated for myself which is probably what I was doing by making detailed line drawings from my holiday photos. This chat made me realise that I have other briefs going on that are higher priority than this one and although I want this zine to be good and something I am proud of, I don't want it to eat away at too much of my time. Maybe consider using some drawings that I am already pleased with in my sketchbook so that I am not starting totally from scratch. 

Feedback from group crit

In my group crit today I asked my peers about what they thought of my zine ideas and they basically agreed that I was making too much work for myself even though the detailed line drawings were good. They liked the sketchbook from my holiday around Europe and thought I could use some images from here but I realised I would still have to draw all of these out again because it was such a small sketchbook and they would lose their clarity when enlarged too much. 

What next...

I will go ahead with the ink drawings I have done from photographs of models in fashion magazines because these have received good comments and I do like them myself. I need to experiment with photocopying and working out the lighting and contrast becauseI never normally use a photocopier and I want to see what effects I can achieve. I already have about six images in my sketchbook which I would be happy to use as they are which is a bonus. I feel a lot happier about this now that I can see the workload as achievable in the time frame.