Progress Post 3/17/16

This week I worked a lot on getting documentation of my process as an artist for this project. 

I had my boyfriend tag along for my photoshoot and snap some pictures of my interactions with the cats.

As you can see, most of my time is not actually spent photographing, but interacting with the cats. I have also been overhauling the powerpoint after the midpoint critique. Everyone said that they wanted more process photos, and more story to the powerpoint. I have been working on talking more about the stories behind the photos. 

Mid-Point Critique Reflection

I think a lot of people don't like hard critiques, but I hate easy ones. I want to know what I'm doing wrong so I can fix it. I was on an ok track, and I think everyone liked my photo's themselves. After the critique though there are a lot of things I want to change to make it better. Everyone was very insistent I needed to put more of the story in the presentation, they wanted a way to connect to the cats. Someone suggested that I do more screenshots of the book in progress so people could see what the actual book looks like. Another point was that I should have character descriptions with my introduction page of the family. Something else I will change is putting pictures from my influences and moving the influences slide up farther in the presentation. My favorite suggestion by far is the changing of the subtitle from: "A year in the lives of the cats of 32 Parkwood Ave" to simply "The lives of the cats of 32 Parkwood Ave". I LOVE this name and I can't believe I didn't think of it myself. 

In all I really really enjoyed this critique!

Phoebe Gloeckner Artist Talk Response

Phoebe Gloeckner is a comic book artist who started out as a student of medical illustration. She has been making comics since she was a teenager. Her first works were based on her life, although she says it is not autobiographical, the character has the same experiences she had as a teenager. Gloeckner talks about her work in a very conversational way, as if she is talking one on one to a friend. I admire her conversational attitude toward presentation, I would love to do that more in my own work, I always feel very awkward talking about my work. Her most recent work is a book about a 15 year old girl from Juarez who was murdered, and her family who still have no answers. I admire her work for a cause, but I don't think I could ever do something so scary or dangerous. I will stick to my cats for now thank you.