Part 5 - Tutor Feedback

 Overall Comments:

 This final part of the course asked you to reflect on your work so far and create a final sketchbook. Overall your response has been good and showed a good willingness to respond to tutor feedback and embed this into your work. You have demonstrated some experimentation with your work and you are developing ways to use both your traditional and digital skills. I feel like you are developing a good workflow and are growing in confidence with your mark-making.

Part 5 of this unit has been such an enjoyable process for me. Looking back at everything I've created and learnt and what I can work on more to improve. I particularly enjoyed creating my visual journal to show my themes and areas that I want to move forward with.

Some points to consider: Remember it’s not always possible to watch the entire video clips you have included, especially the long ones. In previous submissions you’ve added notes and videos in your learning log. When it comes to final assessment, assessor’s time is limited and there won’t be time for viewing all of these. I wouldn’t therefore rely totally on video summaries, it’s better to add notes in your learning log as well. 

I have taken this onboard and since updated and amended the videos and added notes as well. 

Exercise 5.0: Taking Stock 

You were asked to go through your completed sketchbooks and identify the positive aspects. You have taken a very through approach to this and revisited responses to earlier questions as well as commenting on the visual work. Your video was a detailed and well considered commentary on your experience of the course and was a good way to communicate your thoughts. 

You have a clear idea about what you enjoyed and what didn’t and how your responses to initial perceptions have sometimes changed. This all demonstrates good self awareness and analysis of what you have achieved during the unit. 

Some points to consider: Although you may not want to revisit some subjects or ways of working, bear in mind that it can be necessary to explore areas we find more challenging to expand our practice overall.

Following on from my tutor's feedback I have since re-visited a couple of exercises to show continued work on improving my understanding of viewpoints and composition. I still need work on this some more but have already recognised a difference by just playing around with thumbnail sketches which you can see here:

https://nikisillustrationsketchbooks.blogspot.com/2019/10/exercise-33-illustrative-drawings.html

and

https://nikisillustrationsketchbooks.blogspot.com/p/assignment-5.html

You can also find a list of additions and amendments on my Assessment page here:

https://nikisillustrationsketchbooks.blogspot.com/p/learning-log-assessment-selection.html

Research Task 5.0: Visual Language 

You were asked to choose an illustrator and write a 200-word statement on their work and visual language. You have written well about Holly Wales’s work, making good observations about her style and use of media. I can see you enjoying experimenting with her bold use of colour and I hope you manage to get hold of her book for inspiration. 

I still need to get hold of this book and I'm sure when I do it'll further my inspiration for marker sketches.

Assignment 5 Feedback:

It was good to see you explore the different ways of working that you have tried through the course. Starting off with exercises to loosen you up was a good approach and showed the benefit of these early exercises on your work. You went on to try out different ways of rendering the elements you wanted to add to the keyframes, and again you did this thoughtfully and methodically. 

Having decided on your keyframes however, I think you could have spent more time working on composition and viewpoints. Although you talked about these aspects and mentioned wanting to experiment with both, all of the final keyframes are from a very similar viewpoint and perspective. It was good to see you using the technique from the making connections exercise having created your elements. 

It’s interesting that this was an exercise that you didn’t engage with to begin with but after finding your feet you’ve used it again in a successful way. As you say, these are starting points for the final illustrations, and it would be interesting to see what approach you would take if you were to develop one of these further. 

I spent a lot of time on the preparation for assignment 5, I really enjoyed this part and tried no to rush to the final frames. However I think I spent a bit too long on that process and ended up rushing the thumbnails for the frames. I am pleased with the end results but agree with my tutor that a bit more work on the compositions and viewpoints would have made them better.

I've really loved doing this unit, it has challenged me a lot but also taught me so much. Moving forward I am more aware of my weakness to work on and am glad to have found some strengths in my process also.