Responsive: On Form

For my final individual brief, I decided to do a relatively simply brief called ONFORM. The brief consisted of creating a drawing/ sketch based on a shape that was published weekly to Tumblr. You were allowed to sketch whatever you desired so long as it was in black and white, you didn't change the proportions of the shape, you didn't rotate the shape and the shape was clear within the image you had drawn.

I thought that this was a nice little brief to have alongside my other two briefs and I could use it to focus on simply drawing, as character design and environment design aren't my strongest points. I wanted to use this brief as an opportunity to try and develop upon those skills a little and challenge myself to create a number of different character based sketches from the shapes each week.

I started off very simple and focused on idea generation and trying my best to come up with a single idea, as I struggled quite a bit to begin with. However, I found that as I went on, my line strokes got more confident and I was finding it easier to see things in the shapes and come up with multiple ideas. Once I started to get quicker at drawing and coming up with ideas, I began to look at adding shading to my drawings and taking it a little further, rather than just creating a simple outline sketch. I also wanted to push myself and begin to think about how I could make my drawings look less flat with the limited colour palette I had been given.

I found this brief extremely useful to me, as it challenged me to think of a number of different outcomes for different shapes and quickly. It helped me with idea generation and I noticed that I was able to come up with ideas a lot quicker towards the end of the brief. It also helped me to improve my digital drawing skills, which I will be able to take forward into future briefs. On top of this, I feel that I have managed to successfully create a series of sketches that are each different from the last that depict what I set out to achieve at the start. I have been able to create a character based sketch each week and I am pleased with my own progress.
Overall, I feel that this brief has been really successful and has helped me to improve upon skills that will benefit future projects.