Evaluation

This module has been really enjoyable but challenging at the same time, because I have had to step outside of my comfort zone. I am used to spending time on drawings and being quite a perfectionist, so it was interesting to be restricted on the amount of times I could spend on certain drawings, especially with the Form, Flow and Force brief. Im not used to being able to spend only 10 seconds on a drawings, so it definitely taught me to stop worrying about the little things. I know as an artist I look at my surrounding in a way which is possibly quite different to others, so when I was carrying out the Environmental brief, it was really satisfying to choose my locations and the particular aspects of the locations to draw. This was an opportunity to pay a bit more attention to detail. This module has enabled me to play around with media too, I have strayed away from just using pencil or pen on a regular basis. This is really helpful because it has made me want to experiment with different medias in more on my own personal drawings and animations. I have had the challenge of doing more observational drawing, weather it be a location of a person. When we had to draw one another in different poses, I found this really interesting because I don't do as much life drawing as I do character based drawing. Having to look at people in different ways and try to interoperate this in my own way on to paper was both challenging, but really fulfilling. I often assume I'm not very good at life drawing, but after this module I have realised that I can, especially when I don't over think it. 

The animations I have produced for this module have made me think in new ways. For example, animating sounds was actually quite difficult for me, because I struggled to visualise in my mind what the sounds would look like. In order to achieve this I had to produce different experimental drawings and listen to the sounds over and over again. Creating a turn around was something I had never done before, but I knew it would be a very important exercise. I think it is easy for people to forget how tricky it can be to create something so simple, this became apparent when I played by turn around back. Although I was pleased with it, it wasn't perfect. If I was to produce another, I would know what areas to pay more attention to, in order to make it look more consistent. The research side has been of particular interest to me, because I have been able to discover new animations which have inspired me, as well as talk about ones which I have known about for a long time.  It has also been a good opportunity for me to develop my own perusal drawings in my sketch book.