Overall, I was super happy to have had the chance to have taken part in the #getintocomics project. Given it's significance, and the fact it was running at the same time as our OUIL601 Context of Practice module, I had to drop a few briefs to accomodate for it - most notably the 2000AD one (which was my original Thought Bubble 'plan') and it also meant some of my other more personally-driven briefs had to take a back seat until I could get the bulk of the work done for this - such as the 'Getting away with Murder' and 'Om Nom Nom' briefs, which can be found in earlier posts.
I feel more than anything this project gave me the opportunity to work alongside a really great creative - in the form of Tom, who has given me loads of really solid advice about how to approach large grant-funded projects, and really useful insight into the world of comics. I've made numerous connections with other volunteers, artists and creators through doing this, and it's also rekindled my love of painting and working on large scale work.
Even though it wasn't a 'personal glory' brief (as technically it was somebody else's project) - I feel what made it worth doing was the experience and also the knowledge i've now gotten from doing it, and I feel going forwards this is going to really inform my practice a lot more going forwards. It's also - strangely, encouraged me to look outside of the pool of comics and narrative a lot more, and investigate a wider approach to image making - as i'm starting to feel that it might not be where my strength lies.
It might not have been the intended effect (with project being all about 'getting into comics') but hopefully it'll be a positive further down the line!
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