Creating the presentation wasn’t too hard as I already had existing content prior to this class that I could re-use. Although I wanted to make sure that my presentation was clear and concise, so I addressed what it was for, included context about the story and its world, and most importantly showed my progress from thumbnail to the finished illustration.
Unfortunately due to the current pandemic, I decided to lighten my final deliverables for the project and settled that one piece would be a completely coloured environment, the second would be brought to the greyscale stage, and the last would stay as a sketch. While this isn’t ideally what I wanted to hand-in at the end, I still learned a lot from the process.
Shifting my focus to only three pieces instead of five ended up being quite beneficial. I was able to take more time with each piece and assess what needed to be done to compose them well. While I don’t feel completely satisfied with the final illustrations, I am confident that I could refine them more in the summer, and work on the ones I had to ignore for this project.
That being said, I’m giving myself a 6.5/10 for this phase. While I’m proud that I was able to make a cohesive presentation and three finished pieces, I still feel that I definitely could have pushed my illustrations more. I did not spend my time as efficiently as I could have, and it’s a bit disappointing that even in my third year I am still struggling with time management. Although I suppose that’s what school is all about, failing as much as you can now so you can improve and be ready to work once you graduate!
Here are a few slides from my presentation:
