The Little Art Collection - Evaluation

Stamp Collecting

Star Gazing

Jam Making

What went well?

• Texture - I really like the effect texture has had on my images. I was trying to develop on the style I used for the Harrison advent calendar competition and I feel like it has progressed. I do like this method of making work but I understand it wouldn't be appropriate for all briefs. I am thinking ahead to briefs for next semester and I am wondering whether this process might be appropriate for the Adrian Mole book cover. 
• Sketchbook - I wasn't precious about my sketchbook! Finally, I used it for what it is meant to be used for, thinking, testing, experimenting and drawing over and over.
• Progress - I can see a progression just within the three designs I submitted. I feel like the jam making image is a lot better than the previous two. I think I learned from the process of making the other two images and was making decisions about what worked and what didn't. I think the designs work better in a limited colour palette which you can see I leaned towards after completing the stamp image which had a few too many colours in my opinion. 
• Colour - Using Adobe Kuler is becoming park of my image making process now and I feel comfortable using it. It gives me a lot more confidence to use colour within my work which is something I have avoided for a long time. It still allows me to work in monochrome with my analogue media and add colour afterwards. I think I will always prefer working in black and white but I understand that this wouldn't be appropriate for a lot of briefs. 

What didn't go well?

• Time management - I admit my time management for this brief has been terrible. Due to focussing on other modules, I left this brief to one day before the deadline. I really need to get my act together with my time management and planning, it is obvious that my time plan was too optimistic and I had not fully considered the scale of my workload across all modules. In the time that I did spend on this brief, I feel like I got a lot done! Pressure definitely drives me to be productive which is annoying because I always seem to put myself in this position. Maybe setting my own mini-deadlines next semester will help me to not leave things to the last minute. 
• Development - This was mainly down to my time management too but I don't feel like I have much development work. Once I selected the theme and imagery I kind of went for it when I should have reflected on whether the components made the theme clear and what could be altered. I could have done this if I has left myself enough time. 
• Presentation - In terms of answering the submission requirements of the brief, I have done what they asked as they just wanted low resolution jpegs. However, I don't feel like this is the best way to present my work because you can't really see what I had in mind from just individual images, I think it needs to be mocked up into patterns and onto products for this to be clear.