I went to my one on one with Nancy last week and lets just say its good that I didn't charge ahead with my concepts from last week. I had more holes poked in my ideas than there are in a wheel of the finest of swiss cheeses.
This wasn't bad though. It stressed me out and was the first time I've really had a concept fall apart in my "career". The feedback told me that I wasn't being honest to myself, and that feedback couldn't have been better for me.
I went back to the drawing board and have reassessed my approach. I spent the last few days racking my brain trying to find a new angle to approach. Today I felt I had another breakthrough and a possible new direction to approach.
I felt the whole concept of the swiss army knife was close to my personality and skills but still a little off of the mark. I pursued it a little further and tried developing the concept a bit further into a play off of a butterfly knife.
The biggest problem is that I fell in love with my own idea. After bouncing my ideas off of a couple people I might have become a little too married to the concept and chased it too far off of the mark.
Now I am beginning to get a little antsy... This is why I never make artwork for myself, I am too wishy washy to make concrete decisions, and this is one of my biggest character flaws. I am going to do some more brainstorming tomorrow and get up to the school to talk with Nancy a bit to get more feedback and see if I can twist this into a functioning project, somehow. I can practically hear the clock ticking...
Other progress has been made with my potential portfolio layout, I spent a couple hours working on my grid and trying to hash out how the interior of this thing is going to look. Attached you will see what I have so far as well as my brainstorming from the last few days.
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