Visual Languages project 1: Research - A visual diary (revisited)

 If you haven't already done so, start a visual diary and get into the habit of collecting visual material that might be useful as reference material or act as a stimulus for your visual thinking.....

 If you’ve already got a visual diary, then spend some time collecting new material and reference points for it. Reflect on your choices. Are there common threads emerging? For example, are you drawn to particular visual cultures, contexts or styles? What do you think this says about who you are as a developing illustrator?

I haven't recently kept a visual diary so I chose a the week I did a few different things. I just put down all the activities and added doodles when I felt like it, involving some reciepts from work thats I'd drawn on when it was quiet, bus tickets, drawn pictures of real photographs I took and little quotes said on any of those days. So this being done in my sketchbook I enjoyed the physical use of materials. I also added some of the things I wrote down like diary entries.

I think a mixture of styles within this page is intresting, there is realism with some cartoon and abstract colouring. The colour scheme I consider to be quite ugly and dull but I couldn't find my other paints to 'brighten it up'. Nevertheless, I do feel the whole page looking so disjointed  actually reflects how you would typically write in a diary as it freely just comes out your head and onto the page like a word vomit but done in this case visually. This mixutre of styles may be a common theme if I choose to do more in the future becasue it feels natural to work in this way.

 

I will continue to add some 'diary' entries to this post throughout the next through months. I think then I can properly reflect on the themes and such.