COP3 and continuing these ideas into my own practice

The COP3 module has opened up and confirmed new ways of working for me in my own personal practice. Engaging with Outsider Art has taught me (in regards to my own work):

• the benefits of working privately, and being introspective of my work by myself
• what drives my practice: being self-driven for me means that I must also set myself a brief
• how there is absolutely not just one way to draw something, and how repeating an image and see how it naturally hones itself
• the joy of the intuitive 'wacky' aesthetic, and letting the hand draw for you without much thinking...

And in general, the focus and study of processes, figures, forms and how far I can push a visual subject feels like an investigation that will be infinitely ongoing. Exhibition and less-'illustrative' ways of working are on my mind, and this project has been a beginning to explore these, as well as evidence that I can show to someone who may be interested in working with me in such a way. Regardless, visuals and processes from this project are not mutually exclusive to commercial work.