Progress Crit

Key points of self-evaluation:

• I need to experiment with my media more and take risks as I have gravitated towards what I am most comfortable with. 
• Including the narrative of the graveyard between the two churches is not appropriate for the book as a whole. Shifted to regular book from concertina
• Need to explore what I'm trying to say about the churches through the illustrations

Key points from this eval sheet:

• Simplicity of book's idea is attractive
• Use of watercolours is atmospheric and strong, should be adventurous
• Binding/size of finished book needs to reflect the grandness of the churches I am illustrating.

Key points from this eval sheet:

• Watercolours are best when used more subtly than in the previously done illustrations
• Experiment with pens to achieve different line quality. Be less "tight" - try and be quite fast

What I am especially taking on board from this crit is my line quality, especially the suggestion to loosen up and try and speed up the drawings.
Currently the drawings I have been doing have taken quite some time, so not only will I achieve some a new look for my images, but I will also be saving time.

Me attempting to loosen up:

I feel that these are  alot nicer than the previous, more rigid ones I did, but now I am also beginning to think that having this images "floating" on a page alone is boring and plain looking, so need to come up with something to counter this.

An experiment I did to remedy this by using charcoal on a printed watercolour, which turned out ugly: