Choosing an Essay Topic

For the essay topics, I had to both evaluate what interests me personally and what issues are important to me as an artist, I chose other areas like video games and AI art generators because they not only interest me but I also find there are issues that can be discussed. 

While I could discuss the AI generator topic and the concerns of AI replacing artists among other debates, I don’t think I’ll take this one forward as it’s a brand new concept as of this year so there will not be as many sources for me to research.

With the video game topic, this area relates to my practice as I would like to be a concept artist and I could learn the process of creating the style of a game. My peers have also helped me realise there are issues to discuss within this theme such as triple A games vs indie games and the niche market possibly having more success, or the obsession triple A developers have with graphics becoming more realistic rather than stylised.

This made it harder for me to choose but ultimately, I feel that the topic of feminism in children’s books is broad enough to expand on and explore new topics and is still important to me and my practice. Creating stories and characters is something I deeply enjoy and learning about the industry process could help me improve on my skills. There are ideological issues worth discussing as well such as political trends within audiences or other areas of influence and whether this has an effect on creative freedom for illustrators.