What is your research question?
Use the following prompts to identify the kinds of areas you are interested in, and from this, start to formulate a research question. Use mapping techniques and keywords to explore your ideas.
Apply these questions to your own practice to start with, to help identify research topics that directly relate to your creative work. You can also apply them to the work of other practitioners. For example, ‘why did the artist take that approach? What was their intention? Did it work? If not, why not?
- What practice areas are you interested in, or are currently, exploring?
I am interested in children’s book illustration, especially picture books. I am currently exploring how these are made up. ie. how many words per page is the norm, different uniques compositions which add interest and excitement. traditional mediums, painterly textures.
- What keywords describe your practice.
Colourful, textured, painterly, mixed media, full spreads, environmental, inclusive.
- What ideas, processes, or themes drive your work?
My love of children’s picture books, the excitement of children’s faces when they see a new book, texture and detail, traditional painting, how colour can make you feel.
- What debates are currently taking place around these?
Inclusivity, environmental, AI.
- Can you locate these ideas within any theoretical positions?
Yes children’s picture books have been in demand and published since 1658, a informative picture book illustrated and written just for children.
- Are there wider ideas or factors that inform your work?
Children’s anxiety, and self help books, also children’s life story books for adoptive children.
- Where would you locate your practice?
At home in my studio (spare room at present) self employed, already run my small illustration business.
- Who else could be involved in your practice, might their viewpoint or expectations be different to yours?
Other authors that I would work with, they may have different techniques and ideas to my personal ones, they may have higher or lower expectations of what my work might end up being.
- Can you identify any issues, problems, assumptions, or gaps worth exploring further?
I need to work on my composition skills, I want to develop unusual view points in these composition skills.
In Design skills need to improve more to develop better ways of working and also understanding what a art director might want.
Words into visuals, developing and working more on these skills to improve my practise.
To understand or know the word counts on pages, is there set rules, or certain boundaries that need to be implemented?
Practise adding my surface pattern designs into the illustrations, this is what sets my work and illustrating apart from anybody else’s and makes it unique.
Learn the steps an illustrator has illustrating a book, is it a set knowledge for all illustrators or does it differ from project to project?
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