About Me
- John
- Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
- Aspiring illustrator for the computer games industry. Currently Studying Visual Communication at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Wednesday 29 December 2010
lecture RVJ
Reflective Visual Journal –Reflective, place for thinking. Visual. Journal, used constantly over time.
As an illustrator, the reflective visual journal is an essential tool that ultimately can determine the success of one’s workflow and the quality of that work. The term reflective is a notion all illustrators will be familiar with; they must have space for thinking, a space to reflect on their own ideation and a general free flow of thoughts, which allows creativity to flourish. To be in a reflective state is crucial as it is an honest critique of one’s own work, this inevitably leads to the improvement of one’s work and eventually heightens the illustrator’s standards. This can thus make way for the development of ideas and lead to a focused outcome. An illustrator’s visual world is everything; this prompts visual thinking, which is ultimately essential when solving design problems. A journal is a portable workspace, which is constantly used over time. It is an effective means of transferring ideas from the mind to paper no matter the situation or setting. This is a personal method of developing ideas, the preliminarily ideas can be instantly taken down wherever they occur and then given the care and development needed at a later date. The RVJ makes the collection and organization of visual thoughts extremely simple, one can then simply edit and reedit the afore mentioned ideas from the RVJ in a professional setting, i.e. one’s own workspace. The visual material gathered, once analyzed, can then be used in the RVJ in relation to the development of further visual material whenever inspiration strikes. Drawing as a principal is an art form, which the RVJ allows to flourish. The relationship between eye, brain and hand is at the forefront here and Drawing allows one to be in creative in ways void from the written word, photography etc. There is no limit to one’s creativity whilst drawing; it is simply the free flow of ideas in a direction subject to visual thinking. Drawing in itself is a creative process but it is not enough to simply allow the free flow of ideas, as this provides no closure to one’s work. After the initial drawing has taken place, iteration is a principle incorporated to help evaluate, plan and finish the concepts that have arisen from visual thought. For example, ‘Thomas Edison designed over 10,000 prototypes of the light bulb until he found one that worked’ this shows the initial drawing process and the evaluation that followed as a result of iteration. Another integral aspect of iteration is the concept of visual problem solving, to constantly question one’s work, predictably leads to the refinement of ideas and the final solution.
As an illustrator, the reflective visual journal is an essential tool that ultimately can determine the success of one’s workflow and the quality of that work. The term reflective is a notion all illustrators will be familiar with; they must have space for thinking, a space to reflect on their own ideation and a general free flow of thoughts, which allows creativity to flourish. To be in a reflective state is crucial as it is an honest critique of one’s own work, this inevitably leads to the improvement of one’s work and eventually heightens the illustrator’s standards. This can thus make way for the development of ideas and lead to a focused outcome. An illustrator’s visual world is everything; this prompts visual thinking, which is ultimately essential when solving design problems. A journal is a portable workspace, which is constantly used over time. It is an effective means of transferring ideas from the mind to paper no matter the situation or setting. This is a personal method of developing ideas, the preliminarily ideas can be instantly taken down wherever they occur and then given the care and development needed at a later date. The RVJ makes the collection and organization of visual thoughts extremely simple, one can then simply edit and reedit the afore mentioned ideas from the RVJ in a professional setting, i.e. one’s own workspace. The visual material gathered, once analyzed, can then be used in the RVJ in relation to the development of further visual material whenever inspiration strikes. Drawing as a principal is an art form, which the RVJ allows to flourish. The relationship between eye, brain and hand is at the forefront here and Drawing allows one to be in creative in ways void from the written word, photography etc. There is no limit to one’s creativity whilst drawing; it is simply the free flow of ideas in a direction subject to visual thinking. Drawing in itself is a creative process but it is not enough to simply allow the free flow of ideas, as this provides no closure to one’s work. After the initial drawing has taken place, iteration is a principle incorporated to help evaluate, plan and finish the concepts that have arisen from visual thought. For example, ‘Thomas Edison designed over 10,000 prototypes of the light bulb until he found one that worked’ this shows the initial drawing process and the evaluation that followed as a result of iteration. Another integral aspect of iteration is the concept of visual problem solving, to constantly question one’s work, predictably leads to the refinement of ideas and the final solution.
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