Group Work In Progress

This morning I had a group work in progress with Louise where I showed my second more finalised mock book. Although I am quite happy with it I felt that some of the pages were looking a bit empty and she agreed with me. So in the next couple of weeks I will be drawing some small illustrations to add onto the pages in order to make things a bit more exciting and in addition I will definitely be making the main images larger.
Here are some quick doodles in my dummy book that I did after the WIP, which may be used as extra illustrations.

We also spoke a little about how I am going to display my work for the degree show and I think I am going to go for old/vintage looking frames, as it is a traditional fairy tale and may go well with the paintings. I will probably put up original art work as I think it will be a nice feature to see the physical hand-made illustration next to the printed version.

Work In Progress with Jonny

Yesterday morning we had a work in progress meeting with Jonny where we had to show what work we'd done so far. He gave me some pretty helpful advice the most important of which was to stick to working in a sketchbook as my drawings seem more relaxed there. This was discovered in my Negotiated Study project as well but I thought to try and draw some things outside of it as I had been told before that my images seemed to be bursting from my sketchbook. However, I think I will be sticking with working in a sketchbook as I definitely produce better work this way.

He also mentioned that the paintings below were the more successful ones. I have not yet decided exactly which style I want to go for yet but I know that a realistic look will be most suited to the way I work. This week I aim to experiment further with using the water colour pencil effect and gouache as these materials are working quite well.