Throughout the prosses of creating my visual vocabulary, I have learned many things. I have learned about how my pers interpret my work and how I best can convey my messages through the image. The prosses of constantly reevaluated my work and making new iterations has forever changed how I do work. Now I know that one idea can be made into many. I chose to portray my final visual vocabulary as a letter to convey that my work this semester is mine but it also belongs to everyone else in the class as I truly feel that there input and presents has altered the way I create. I wanted my final project to show the evolution from the beginning to end products that were strong and bold symbols of my work. I feel this project was a success there is imagery that carries out my visual vocabulary but takes different forms. I am personally attached to these forms and colors because I feel they are unifying to my identity as a creator. At the beginning of the semester I had different forms and colors that I felt confined and defined by but now I don’t feel like I have constraints. I feel I have a lense now that I can look through as a tool to guide the development of my imagery. Note my peer refection was written in the letter that I shared with the class in addition to the other half of my reflection.
12 December 2018
Dear Colleague,
I have learned a lot about myself through the process of developing my visual vocabulary this semester. I am now more in touch with how my emotions affect the work that I create. Being pushed to create more versions of my work has made me realize why I create. I don’t know if I am creating art or just a true reflection of my emotions on any given day.
This project has taught me how to see myself: to recognize my emotions as they are expressed in my work. I have also learned what differentiates my work from that of others, which is something I had really struggled with previously. I would not say that my visual vocabulary is now finite, however, I now am aware of the values and messages within my work and I think that these will forever be a part of my language.
I chose to organize my visual vocabulary by separating my drafts which I have collected through the semester from the final iteration. I did this because my drafts are all quite reserved in nature in the respect that they are all simple lines and minimal in color. Even my final iterations on work from the beginning of the semester are similar to this timid style. I was afraid to try new things and experiment with my illustration style.
This class (you) have taught me that it is better to venture out and try new ways of expressing my ideas, even if an outcome is less successful. Not doing so may leave me cohesive but stagnant. I would also say that being surrounded by many other talented people has inspired my preferences, meaning that I know more now about the kind of work I am attracted to and why. I used to only work in black and white because I did not know how to use color. I also had not seen enough work that used color and which felt related to my style. Seeing how you inserted hints of color into your work, and learning how color contributed to your visual vocabulary, helped me to create a palette of my own to include in my visual vocabulary. Thank you for this lasting contribution to my work.
Very truly yours,
Elizabeth Hersch
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