Summer Feedback

Today we had a group feedback session on our summer work.

I felt that this has helped me a lot as the girls I was put with were really helpful yet critical and we all gave each other plenty of ideas to work from.

My main points from the crit were that I need to experiment with more media and take more risks. I knew this already but I am glad that it was pointed out because hopefully it will make me push my boundaries that little bit more. I also need to become more loose with my drawings, I tend to be too neat and detailed in everything I do because otherwise I feel like I haven't tried hard enough. However when I look at other people's work which I find amazing they sometimes say it took two minutes and was really easy. For me that's the biggest point I need to improve on.

Other than that I was complimented on my use of colour and my use of mirroring. They said that my theme throughout was strong and although I experimented with different things they were all connected somehow, through watercolour etc. 

I am going to continue with the work I have been doing already but head in the direction of Urban Influences. I really need to do some primary research to work from as this was also something I neglected over summer. 

Feedback Week Task

During feedback week we were given the task to go to a museum and use the words Mapping and Measuring as starting points for our drawings. Me and some friends went to the Museum of Science and Industry.

I decided to try and map the journey by using pictures I took on the way there. Originally I started to only draw the photographs in order of when I saw them. However then I decided to integrate images from inside the museum as well. I did this because instead of looking at the day in sections I decided to look at the journey as a whole. One of my reasons for doing this was the compositions became much more interesting as I could choose what I was drawing from a selection of photos.

After this I began to think about the way I look at the objects in the museum. Firstly I realized I tend to focus on the center of an object, and then gradually look at the rest but in less detail than the center. This is usually because this is where the main part is. However then I thought about objects with a lot of detail everywhere. I tend to start at the center and then move my eyes in a clockwise direction to look at everything.