Critical Appraisal - "Mix It Up"

For the next theme - "Mix It Up" - I chose to explore the use of colour, texture and contrasting typography. I continued using the name "Sweetea"for this task and continued using my colour palette of typically girly colours. I particularly looked at contrasting textures with solid fills and combining both serif and sans serif type. I used curly fonts named "Channel" and "Hand of Sean" and contrasted them with more blocky fonts, such as "Cartoon" and "Sketch Serif".

As well as using digital work, I further experimented with the use of water colours as I like the more illustrative feel that they give to my work. I found that it was easier to create the kinds of fonts that I wished to use freehand when drawing or painting, but I also managed to create a digital version of this by using the brush tool on Illustrator. This gave it a more professional look which I liked.

For me, time management was an issue this week and I discussed this with my peers. Through this consultation, I have decided to try and use my time more efficiently to create a broader range of ideas, rather than spending a lot of my time developing one idea. I also decided to create another page of work for this task using a collage media as I think that it will be a good experiment for my task.