Working in both a workbook and a blog is useful because I can draw any idea that comes to mind and not have to scan it in, and the other way around for when I screenshot my work as I go when producing it on the computer. This saves a lot of time, and means that I can therefore produce more work or think about the challenges for longer than if I only had one or the other.
The design process was an interesting one. One of my final poster ideas (soldier/poppy flag) was born from the very first thumbnail that I ever did. Although I left this idea, I kept returning to it again and again, and the final it different enough from the original to show a development of ideas, but it's still pretty close. I almost came full circle.
In contrast, the other poster was a very last-minute change of idea that resulted in the final work. I had lots of other great ideas that I ideated and thumbnailed, but I couldn't seem to visualise them as posters and was therefore unhappy with how it was all going. This sudden realisation and new idea at the end kick-started me towards a poster that I was more happy with.
One thing that I struggled with in my process was keeping ordered. My blog is easier to chop and change, but my workbook has thumbnails from week 2 on the same page as thumbnails from week 5, and things like that, because I often leave blank spaces to fill in later and then, as i'm flicking back through my work, I have a similar idea to those on the page that I'm open to and draw it in. Due to this quick-put-the-idea-down-wherever-there's-room way of working, my workbook looks like some of my developments are dropped for several weeks and then re-visited, or seem to become less resolved thumbnails as time goes on. But this is why. I think it's better to put these ideas down as soon as I get them, even if it is higgledy-piggledy, than lose them. But this is something that I need to work on.
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