Self-reflection on part 4.

I took a long break over Christmas but I’m back and ready to get back to work.

I received lots of helpful feedback in my report for part 4. As always I was shown a lot of questions about my exercises that seem very obvious in hindsight but weren’t explored at the time!

Also helpful was pointing out what areas seemed useful to me personally to expand on and return to in future exercises, for example the methodology applied in the visual distortion exercise, and the simple line drawings.

I think in general I need to be more consistent and methodical with my research, and apply a good level of work ethic and commitment to every exercise. I think sometimes I can focus too much on what I want to do and not what the course is asking me.

As an artist I think it’s pretty clear that I favour the drawing elements over the design elements. I don’t see this changing in the future but I do think I can bring a greater balance, and spend some time researching good design. In the final part of the course hopefully I can work on and improve my skills as a designer.

My ability to embrace new things and do secondary research was praised, so I’ll aim to continue with that in the future, but special emphasis on design elements and being more methodical in my practise.