Visual Identity

It's been a while since I've touched on Studio Brief 3, and the last time I did, I left it feeling very unsure of how I wanted to visually represent my practice. In my last blog post I researched and wrote about practitioners that used illustrative self portrait icons within social media, which is something that I was really keen on trying.

I spent the whole afternoon trying to draw my face, and I kind of just came to the conclusion that I'm not confident enough with my character skills yet to actually use this medium to promote my practice. But it is something that I definitely want to work on.

Some creepy drawings of my face

In situations like these, I have realised that the best strategy is to play to your strengths in order to succeed. In my most recent submission for 505 I really enjoyed making hand made type, and have been told that my handwriting is quite distinctive. I tried a few different styles of type out and selected the ones that were the most aesthetically efficient.

I was happy with this version as I feel that playful and not so rigid, and it isn't too difficult to read (with my standard curly handwriting which isn't). 

Reflection

I'm going to call it a day working on my creative presence for today. I'm finding it SO difficult, and its making me super anxious about my practice in general due to the fact that I'm still in the very early learning stages of the trade, I kind of don't feel ready to represent myself at a professional level at this stage. Although this is a working document and it is bound to develop in correlation with my practice I still feel really under-confident about producing professional documents. Maybe I'm just over-whelmed by the whole thing. I'm not sure. I'm going to come back to it tomorrow.