1. What skills have you developed through this brief and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
I’ve learned to critically explore the media I’m using in regards to the project I’m doing at hand. My time management has been much better on this module, allowing me to create a nicely refined and relatively stress-free outcome. This brief also allowed me to fully get to grips with Photoshop a lot more and I feel very competent in using it now as a result. I’m very confident that I could now use my digital skills in other briefs to create other successful outcomes. I’ve also explored different medias a lot more without restricting myself to something that I ‘know’ for the sake of reaching an outcome quicker
2. What approaches to/methods of image making have you developed and how have they informed your concept development process?
Digital Photoshop skills, as well as explored work into line quality and the importance of colour for refining and unifying work. I’ve identified a lot of ways of working – such as the coloured pencil/ink combos and the ink and brush line work that I’m now interested in exploring with other future briefs. Conceptually, the media and the method I was working in ended up driving it enormously – moving from scratchy unrefined fine liner to something a lot more clear-cut and refined. It helped me create a final outcome that demonstrated the concept I was going fro really successfully.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I know now that I am capable of creating a consistent, refined body of work as opposed to having a spikey flow of strengths and weaknesses. I think my work for this module has been really consistent, which has lead to a more organised, more professional outcome. This module has given me the opportunity to strengthen the link between what I observe and what I then illustrate – the characters and the narrative in my book being sourced directly from observations I’d made in the first half of the brief. I’m good at drawing what I can see, and I think as I continue to develop as an illustrator my ability to be pretty empathetic with my work will become a real strength and a selling point as I begin to work as a practitioner.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?
For me this module has been somewhat of a flip on the back of the previous Visual Skills one. In visual skills I was pretty intensely dedicated to documenting and evaluating my work, to the point where I felt it difficult to really throw my best into my work because it felt like an inorganic way of working. On this brief, I barely documented anything at all – choosing instead to write a down a lot in my sketchbook as I went with my research. This was great in terms of the outcome of my work, because it meant I really had chance to get to grips with really developing my project, but it equally meant a lot of my documentation was retrospective. I don’t actually think this was a bad thing, because it meant that I could organise my documentation in a much more concise and organised manner but equally I could probably put more into it if I found a method of work that involved documenting as I went along as opposed to doing it in fits and bursts.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1. Keep on top of my blog and use it more as a tool to help improve my work – not only will this help me organise myself better it will leave me with less stress at the end of modules ensuring that I haven’t missed anything out of my documentation.
2. Allow more time to synthesise media and maybe use media on a bigger scale in order to identify it would work or not. Whilst the way I chose to explore media in this module was an improvement on what I’ve previously done in the past my main aim was to make the end product as refined as possible and I feel I could have missed out on a fair chunk of experimentation as a result of that.
3. I would continue to look at other practitioners work in order to identify how I could improve my own work in-situ. I started to do this this brief and I found it started to really help my work, especially when it came to finalisation as it gave me a rough end-point to work to. Whilst I have a broad knowledge of contemporary work I think it could be made a lot better.
4. Procrastrinate less and identify situations that I work best in. I work better sat in the studio at Uni than I do sat in my flat as it’s a better work environment for me. It takes me roughly an hour to get into the work that I’m doing and I feel like I need to continue identifying my weaknesses in time management to stop myself getting distracted when I sit down to do my work
5. Manage my time to allow me further time to tweak and experiment with work at the end of briefs. This falls under the idea of “don’t leave your blogs to the last minute” but I think its also relevant with my work as well. I feel like I’m starting to grow as an illustrator but my lack of time to really explore all the possible outcomes and scenarios is what’s holding me back right now. In future briefs I’m going to choose to focus less on the outcome and more on the process building up to it.
6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor
Attendance: 4
Punctuality: 4
Motivation: 4
Commitment: 4
Quantity of work produced: 3
Quality of work produced: 5
Contribution to the group: 4
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