Evaluation

1. Which practical skills and methodologies have you developed within this module and how effectively do you think you are employing them within your own practice?

I’ve had a lot more consideration for design within this brief, having to combine real and imaginary environments and maintain a thematic consistency within the constraints of the two. I do think I have quite effectively achieved this, with all that I have shown the book, getting the idea thanks to this. I didn’t go too with new materials, only really dabbling in gouache and copic markers. Gouache im not necessarily feeling but with a bit of practice could come to enjoy, the markers I love, and cant wait to find an excuse to use them in a future project.

2. Which approaches to research have you found most valuable during this module. How have you interrogated your research to identify appropriate ideas?

Visiting the holiday home was simply a great experience in itself on a personal level, getting to bid farewell to the location and its memories. Although it didn’t amount to much it was nice to sketch the odd characters and make notes on the tube, It certainly beat staring in to space and I should get used to doing that from hereon out as it only further advances me as an image maker. Having specific breakthrough thanks to artist research was great too, never forget to keep others work to hand for inspiration.

3. What strengths can you identify within your submission and how have you capitalised on these? What aspects of your submission are you satisfied with?

I think the blueprint pages are to a good standard and are full of energy within the character illustrations, with some peers noting that they look animated. This is good, I wanted that to be the case, its supposed to be lively, being a child’s imagination. I am quite proud of this side.

4. What areas for further development can you identify within your submission and how will you address these in the future?

Whelp, there’s a lot to cover here as I’m actually not too happy with the overall outcome, sure I think the blueprint pays off, but the polaroid’s totally betray it. They’re just so flat and identical in presentation, peers have told me this is good and gives a professional finish, but that’s exactly the problem. It’s so sterile and I feel as though it completely kills the personality, the me in the work. I could blame this on the Photoshop file breaking and forcing my hand but that wouldn’t have been an issue had I more time to spend on it. This lack of time was absolutely of my own fault also, having nil motivation and leaving everything to the absolute last minute, it just isn’t good and most certainly will not be the case from hereon out. A final note, and also a bi product of doing everything later, there is little experimentation, with this being a very linear process, absolutely not the way it should be.

5. How effectively are you making decisions about the development of your work? What strategies inform this decision making?

I did rely upon a lot of peer feedback for this assignment, with many breakthroughs coming from exterior sources. This has been incredibly helpful and will most definitely be utilised in the future, especially seen as the opportunity wont last for ever.

6. How effectively have you managed this project and organised yourself during this module?

I think my answer to four pretty much sums this up, I am super annoyed with myself for slipping up to this extent for the project. Thankfully I still generated a worthwhile outcome, but will admit that I don’t feel that it deserves to be that way, live and learn, that’s what I need to keep in mind.

  

7.How would you grade yourself on the following areas: (please indicate using an ‘x’)  5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor
	1	2	3	4	5
Attendance				x
Punctuality				x
Motivation		x
Commitment		x
Quantity of work produced		x
Quality of work produced			x
Contribution to the group				x