'Art Books': Conclusion

Looking back, this project was the first brief where I felt I made any major progress not only through the outcome but through the overall development as shown in my sketchbook. I certainly feel that there has been some benefit to increasingly showing the development of my artwork through images of my sketchbooks for this blog.

In showing my sketchbook, this should provide an opportunity for people to gain better insight on how my work comes to form and in turn (hopefully) better justify itself. Also, I found it rather engaging for me to use a second-hand book not unlike the projects themselves, as it brought an amusing notion to adapt aspects of the original text and images to fit with my current ideas. I have even considered more basic illustrative projects that work on this as a full-on project, rather than a scrapbook.

As for the book projects themselves, my opinions on them have certainly changed over time. Admittedly, I originally had more interest in the Esquire's Look into Hell, it certainly required more time and effort to complete in comparison to Book of Matches. However, more recently, I have gone on to better appreciate the greater intrigue ...Matches had attracted. There was a far more simplistic charm to the piece that made better use of the primary material. Many of the ideas drawn for Esquire's... could have just as well been produced as a separate kind of piece altogether, or rather, it would have benefitted being produced on some other medium. The later idea for a possible exhibit of Esquire's... is, in ways, a clear sign of that.

I hope to better refine the idea developed from Esquire's... through another project some time in the future.