Part 1 - Tutor Feedback

 Overall Comments:

The first part of the course focused on getting started, and overall you have made a good start. You have fully engaged with all of the exercises and the assignment to produce a good body of work in the first part of the course. Your research has been thorough, and this has contributed to successful outcomes in the exercises. Your learning log has shown your thought processes and reflection well and it will be good to see you develop this. Your reflective vlog at the end of the submission gave me a great insight into your feelings, motivations and hopes for the course. I hope that your confidence will grow through the rest of the course, now that you are comfortably on the right track.

I really enjoyed these initial exercises to begin the course. It was important to me to think about my past relationship with my sketchbooks and what my goals were going forward. Although I have tried lot's of different types of sketchbooks I hadn't really made my own before. I really enjoyed making the sketchbooks and used prints of my own artwork for the covers. I tried a couple of different binding techniques as well, this is something that I had some interest in and was keen to try. Tutorials on YouTube helped me learn the techniques before having a go myself. They were fun to try and definitely something I would use again for future sketchbooks.

Research/Inspiration - There are several modern day artists' work that I admire, I have noted them in my learning log for Part 1 research and I hope to use those inspirations along with the course unit to spur me on to try new techniques and develop my relationship with my sketchbooks. I need to learn to have more of a process before jumping into final pieces and to be more playful and free with my approach to my drawings so I am very keen to use what I learn here to help me practice those skills for future work

Assignment 1 Feedback:

It seems that for you, this assignment was a springboard into getting more familiar with using sketchbooks and it has obviously been successful in doing so. It was good to see you trying out some new techniques and experimenting with your media. This is something that you can really develop as you go through the course. I think though that you can be bolder with line and colour and see where it takes you. Perhaps try out using different ways of using line, brush, charcoal, dry brush there are so many things to experiment with. Also experiment more with the different papers in other sketchbooks and move away from the safety net of the plain white page. 

Being experimental is challenging for me in terms of drawing. and painting as I tend to find techniques I like using and stay in that comfort zone. It was good to try some different art supplies and be more loose with mark making, giving me more freedom to new try things. It did feel awkward and frustrating at times but I hope this will be a good start to help me to not be so afraid in the future.

Add more comments and thoughts into your sketchbook, this will act as both a reminder of your feelings at the time and a way to develop your ideas further.

I will remember to do this and aim to be more thorough in my reflections and thought processes for future work.

Going Forward - I am really excited for this course unit and look forward to the different ways in which I will be challenged in my drawing and sketchbook habits. I aim to gain more techniques and push myself out of my comfort zone in order to grow.