Study Task 2

Why do I want to know? Why am I going to do?

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Identify 10 questions that you want to find the answers to as part of your degree.

1. How do I develop a recognisable visual voice and authorship of my work?
2. Can I work digitally whilst still maintaining a sense of playfulness and authenticity?
3. How can I have my own style whilst still being adaptable to a variety of briefs?
4. How do I get my work out into the world?
5. What does it take to make it as an Illustrator in the Industry?
6. How can I improve my technical drawing ability?
7. How do I open doors into the art world/networking?
8. What is the difference between drawing as a hobby and for a career?
9. How can I become a better visual communicator?
10. How can I improve my essay writing skills?

For each question explain what you expect or want to learn by finding the answers to the questions.

1. I would like to develop my practice to a point where I have a unique visual style that sets my work apart from other illustrators/practitioners. 
2. Learning to take my work into a digital format is something that I am inexperienced at but very interested in pursuing.
3. As I enjoy working with a range of media and the challenges of different briefs, I would like to know how to effectively produce work in response to a client's vision for a project.
4. I would like to know the best ways to share my work on social media, etc.
5. I want to know how to maintain work and still be adaptable as an Illustrator.
6. I think by improving my drawing ability I can further my practice into different areas of creativity.
7. Knowing the right people to get in contact with is very important in creative industries and I hope that through University I will be able to do this.
8. Learning to be able to distinguish between what I want to draw and what I need to draw for the development of my work is something I look forward to.
9. I would like to know how to effectively put across what it is I want my work to say.
10. As I enjoy written work and reflection of topics studied on the course, I would like my essays to be of a high quality.

What will YOU do in order to find the answers to each question.

1. I think that with time and practice it will become clear what will become my visual signature.
2. Photoshop workshops and trying out drawing tablets at University will get me used to working digitally.
3. Having a range of briefs and trying out a range of techniques.
4. Setting up social media sites for my artwork and sharing with other creatives.
5. I hope this will become clear as time goes on, I intend to work as hard as possible whilst at University in order to gain the most from the experience.
6. Draw all day every day!
7. Again this is something I hope to understand as time goes on, I aim to take every opportunity and gain work experience in my chosen field.
8. Having separate sketchbooks for personal work as well as for my assessed work.
9. I believe that by doing all of the above I can develop my work to a point where producing an image to provoke a certain reaction will become second nature.
10. I aim to improve my essay writing skills throughout the course, therefore I want to pro-actively use books from the library and feedback from my tutors to do this.