Researching audience - Final Piece preparation

In order to help me develop and choose the most suitable style fro my final piece, I thought it would be important to reach out to my target audience by posting pictures of my different drawings on Instagram and for them to tell me their reasons why. I decided to use Instagram rather than any other source of social media because the majority of my target audience follow me on there. I am aiming for my pieces to attract viewers who have interest in art/illustration and appreciate the varied forms it holds. I want it to attract enthusiastic and insightful people who are open to different interpretation - many people like this are artists themselves but some are not. I also believe that the age group of my audience is a similar age to me as I believe the younger generation are more open to individuality and diversity and the energy from young artists is extremely expressive. After seeing the results from my Instagram posts, I have concluded that my audience liked the drawings done in the styles of Bolecz  and Rodriguez. The colours were not too bold and they liked the simplicity of the styles. Alternatively, they found the facial features of the Covolo portrait too accurate and would prefer it if the tones were lighter. The portrait inspired by Fuenmayor's work lacked colour and looked rather dismal which is not the emotion I am trying to work towards. Although the Bolecz illustration looks very flat they thought it was successful in how it has some bold lines for the facial features which were necessary to highlight.  Many showed liking towards  Rodriguez's response because the style looked distinguishable and unique. Due to these mixture of opinions, I have decided that I had to combine the positive assets of these drawings into one design. Shown towards the end of my book is  my final design. It relates most to Bolecz's style but I made the features and shapes more defined.