Authors' Struggle

Problem Analysis

I have hit the wall AGAIN. I feel like I am going round and round in circles with this brief and I am beginning to really struggle with it.

My advice from Teresa was to:

• Look at more quotes
• Look more at his life, what did he love and want to say?
• Parts of the brain?
• Spend 30 minutes getting everything out of my system about Oliver Sacks

So I tried; here is my 30 minute brainstorm:

But again, after I had done this I still felt like I was at a dead end, how would I bring all of these things together?

I then tried to experiment with the LSD side of things, I was quite pleased with the outcome but feel apprehensive about taking this further because of the two colour restriction.

Big problem

I am in such a pickle! I keep feeling really angry and upset whenever I try and sit down to do some work on this project now, and I want to be able to enjoy it and be successful at it, and I am just going around in circles.

Problem Solving

Where am I at now?  In a massive RUT!

What do I have to do? Produce a two colour screen print representing Oliver Sacks, and an animated sting advertising a documentary on his life.

What can I do to move myself along? Look for inspiration?

Inspiration it is.

I filled my pinterest board with pictures of two-colour screen prints just to freshen my mind.

I also did a search specifically for illustrations relating to Oliver Sacks:

The images that I found were peaceful and soothing illustrations of what Sacks' patients were going through with their conditions; not too manic, not too simplistic. Three of the illustrations (in collage style) were composed by Martin O'neill for the Folio Society, which consisted of a cover for 'the man who mistook his wife for a hat' and three of the inside pages.

This has given me the idea that I could possibly produce book covers for my three prints, or at least use them as inspiration and starting points for my three images (because I am so lost!)

I also looked at some compilation images, just because everything I'm drawing at the minute when I do brainstorms kind of looks and feels like a compilation.

Plan

• Draw anything that comes to mind
• DON'T STRESS
• Play around with composition