COP: Visual Diagram Evaluation

Strengths: 

• Colour- I feel I picked a strong colour palette that is very attractive and eye catching
• Character/Expressiveness- I'm very happy with some of my characters expressions I feel the top left hand box and the one below it show a lot of expression and a lot of my squares have a strong sense of character.
• Humour?- I hope there are some elements of my poster that are funny, as I tried to parody some of the aspects of heteronormativity by making them look absurd.

Weaknesses:

• Type- I feel as though just using a computer type makes it look out of place next to the style of my illustrations. I feel I should have drawn the type with the pen tool in illustrator but I ran out of time.
• Some tiles more developed than others- I feel I should have thought out the characters in each tile more.
• Maybe hard to understand perhaps for those unfamiliar to the concept of heteronormativity.
• Hopefully not but I do wonder if this could be misinterpreted as stereotyping on my behalf, when really I'm trying to show the stereotypes but make people think about them.

Notes:

• Not completely sure how I feel about the style I used, I like some tiles more than others, I feel if I'd spent more time on the ones I am unsure about they would have turned out as good as my favourites however.

COP: Visual Diagram WIP

Mock-up/scan

Drawing out the sketches more clearly and making alterations where needed. I also put in the boxes to make sure they were all equally spaced and sized.

Colour tests- I decided to go with something more like the top colour scheme as I found it a lot more human looking. I think the bottom scheme is interesting but doesn't fit.

COP: Visual Diagram Final ideas

COP: Pecha Kucha Feedback

My pecha kucha went well, I feel not having a strict script really helped me keep a more natural feel to the presentation. I think it got people interested and got people thinking about heteronormativity because I feel its a very interesting subject to be aware of. 

The idea of a collection of characters representing how a heteronormative society views LBT people was the most popular idea, as the heteronormative man idea was thought to be taking the spot light away from LBT people which I think is right.

COP: Pecha Kucha

I decided to keep my pecha kucha very unscripted because I felt I would be looking at my lines too much. Instead I felt a lot more confident assigning topics to each picture and talking about them freely.

Title: Some sketches from my sketchbook

I talk about how I started off my essay looking at the divide in the LGBT community and how I came across the term heteronormativity.

1: defining heteronormativity

2: Explain my reasoning about why I left out gay men of my essay, because they are represented far more than other LGBT members in both media, activism and research.

3: Explain that heteronormativity is the reason why people can feel uncomfortable when talking about LGBT subjects including heteronormativity itself.

 

4: Explaining why I left out "+" members of the LGBT+ community such as asexuals, intersex people, pansexual people, etc. I felt I didn't have enough room in the essay plus they come with their own unique set of problems.

5. Explaining how heteronormativity affects lesbians, eg; how they are portrayed overly sexualised for the male gaze or they're shown to be man hating.

 

6. Explaining how I tried to characterise it through drawing.

7. Explaining how bisexual people are demonised by heteronormative views.

8. My work trying to get across of the stereotyped demonised bisexual. 

9. How trans people are demonised by heteronormative views and how they are portrayed by those with heteronormative views.

10. Explaining the challenges trans people face with heteronormativity everywhere.

11. Explaining how I tried to draw the feeling of isolation trans people can feel in our heteronormative society.

12. How heteronormativity effects non LBGT people, for example the idea that a family has to be a man and a women who marry and have children, like the idea of the average white nuclear family.

13. Explaining about how I tried to characterise this idea of the perfect heteronormative family.

14. Heteronormative man with his 2.5 children.

15. Explaining how heteronormativity effects art and how it can be present in art, eg; giving one skeleton bone boobs to show this is a man and a women skeleton and thus a straight couple. Other things like giving girl characters like minnie mouse eyelashes etc.

16. My work trying to parody the concept, not very good!!

17. More about how ridiculous I find it.

18. Saying how its such a big subject and saying how I'm finding it difficult to pin down ideas because its a topic encompassing many things.

19. Some of my first roughs, explaining my ideas for diagrams.

COP: Sketchbook-Part 2

An attempt at college. I feel David Cameron would have a very heteronormative mind.

Sneaky Sneaky Bisexuals, apparently always lying to people. Also some absurd bisexual comics that try make the things people usually say to bisexuals sound stupid.

 

Bisexuals being locked out of the LGBT community because they are thought to be either too queer or too straight to belong there.

The two archetypes based on a heteronormative view of lesbians.

How dare you lesbians!! Also trying out pencil crayon.

Some final idea, I'm thinking either a typology of the different parodies of heteronormative biased LBT characters or a massive one page comic about the day in the life of heteronormative man.

Idea for a typology going in lengths, one for Lesbians, one for bisexuals, and one for transgender people.

COP: Sketchbook-Part 1

 

I started by doodling to get ideas out, I thought about loneliness and isolation in a heteronormative world for LGBT people and how people see it. I like the space used on the right.

More themes of isolation, this time more towards representing trans people and the struggles they face. I found it very hard to represent trans people without explicitly giving them an identity.

Some comics on heteronormativity in art, such as the need people have to always distinguish things as sexually female, such as giving things boobs.

I tried to imagine the epitome of the straight side of heteronormativity and I came up with heteronormative man, he has a wife and 2.5 children. I found it fun making parodies and characters of these concepts.

Say goodnight to your 2.5 children.