illmatic - bits + wrapping up

after my tutorial with jamie i really made it my focus to work more exhaustively and fall in love with drawing again - i made a conscious effort to draw without much thought or consideration for how those would exist in a publication format because really those should be afterthoughts.

i found that sometimes drawing outside my sketchbook in a little handmade book makes me work a bit looser which is a good good thing - so need to take this to future projects if i ever feel as though the blank sketchbook page is affecting the way in which i draw.

the photocopier was a saviour in this project! it allowed me to combine all the different elements i'd generated into a collection - had a lot of fun intuitively curating bits and thinking about paper stock and making books. working in this way brought in a new process for me which i was really craving - it felt exciting and new and ive not felt like that about my work in a very long time.

the zines i made also feel like they carry within them some ambiguity which is something i get concerned gets lost through the way that i draw figuratively? in combination with the images and text and type those drawings felt more layered and the working out that comes with that ambiguity from a viewers point of view is something i really like - the idea that you have to spent some time looking and dissecting to figure out what it is about.

tutorial notes:

* zines are good - a bit of repetition that could be rectified but might b helpful to move on time wise
* bandanas would benefit from being bolder - same feeling as zine? brighter colours!
*doom project - expand stock he's quite theatrical so how can that carry itself to my image making metallics?
*tshirts can be fun but think about Joey Yu and how it's a full garment - theatrics can come to that as well?
KEEP THE ENERgY!!! keep the momentum!!