OUIL 502 Evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation BA (Hons) Illustration Module Code: OUIL502 PPP Name: Alicja Golec Student ID: ag260019 Please identify where the evidence for each of the learning outcomes is within your submission and how well you feel you have met the learning outcomes. Please also grade yourself in relation to the learning outcomes using terms: poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent (Note - This is so that the team have an understanding of how well you feel you have done. It is not an indication of the actual grade you may receive.)

Learning Outcome

Evidenced where?

Blog, Visual Journal, Roughs, Final Illustrations, Storyboards, Development Sheets etc. (No more than 75 words)

Your grade Using words: > poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent

5A3: Demonstrate an informed understanding of professional context of their practice within the creative industries and cultural environment. (Knowledge & Understanding - Research and Critical Awareness)

Blog

Good

5B2: Identify and analyse the Blog challenges and opportunities offered by future developments within individually appropriate areas of creative practice.

(Cognitive Skills - Problem Analysis, Problem Solving)

Good

5C2: Develop a body of work in response to a defined brief that effectively demonstrates professional working practices in research, planning and communications. (Practical Skills - Visual Quality and Conceptual Development)

Blog

Good

5D2:Employ a range of appropriate professional communication methods to record and present their own creative practice, concerns and ambitions. (Key Transferable Skills, Organisation, Communication and

Blog

Very good

Evaluation)

Summative Evaluation (See Evaluation Guidance on next page for more information) You are required to write a 750 word Summative Evaluation of this module.

Please type up your Summative Evaluation in the box below. Make a PDF of the document and post the PDF as your final post on your OUIL503 blog. Also, please cut and paste the text from this box into the final page(s) of your OUIL502 Project Report.

I have learned a lot this year, but I must say that I haven’t put a lot of focus in my personal practice outside the college. Second year was very demanding for me and I simply haven’t have time and haven’t found pleasure in drawing for the sake of exploring. I am a person who is the most productive when I focus on one thing instead of multiple projects, so leaving time for my personal practice outside the college seemed to be almost impossible. Of course there has been times where I have explored new things, but I feel like other modules have mostly influenced my practice.

This year has started with the module that opened me to mono print, and to self-expression. I have always be a drawer and making a pieces, which looks more finished, and I can still draw on them, made me want to do more print. I have found mono very suitable for the subjects I am interested in, and for the style I am going towards. In OUIL504 I kind of let myself go with the subject. I have focused on the author: Donna Tartt, and what I understood is that I adore working ‘with personalities’. I am excited every time I can gather information about interesting persona, imagine them in different situations and create work about it.

The other subject that came with me further is fashion illustration. I have always thought that clothes add to one’s expression, therefore I was always interested in it. Fashion can build the character. I have never decided to do any serious project about fashion illustration, and Donna Tartt style was a great opportunity to focus on that matter.

I have been trying to extend that subject to my other, self-initiated brief, but I guess, after such a long focus on the fashion illustration, I needed to step back from it.

Other subject that I focused on this year is places. This has been a little surprise for me, because I have always focused on characters more. I think that COP2 and the subject I have chosen for my essay (architecture in David Lynch movies) has shown me how atmospheric architecture can be. I have started to explore that subject in my COP visual journal, but during the year I have noticed that I have been drawing more and more places in my private and college sketchbooks. It has been very exciting for me and I have found that places can convey a certain mood. It is definitely something I will extend to my further practice.

Another thing I have learned about myself is that I enjoy making posters. I have always been a film enthusiast and poster making seems like a great direction for me. Making a work based on movies is similar to focusing on previously mentioned characters. I need to do research, and create a work inspired by something I am fascinated about. But poster making also gave me a lot of challenges: I have learned/ still learning, how to work with composition, quickly respond to a brief or apply type to a poster. It is still quite a long way to go before I will master the graphic side of me, but I feel like this can be my new favourite area of work.

Media wise I have explored previously mentioned mono print, but besides that I have been working with ink and collage a lot. Collage came up to me mainly this year, again with 504. Last year I was struggling with finishing my final work. Every time I knew that I was making the final piece the quality of the line was changing, it wasn’t natural or full of expression anymore. Collage was the best option for me, because I could create parts of drawing, without thinking about final piece, and connect it all together after. I have also expanded it into other modules and I feel like collage will stay in my practice for some time.

Ink came up after Christmas, where I have explored new tools. I have always used ink as a ‘finishing tool’,

but after I have started using ink brushes and calligraphy pen for drawing, I found out how beautiful this medium can be. All the mark making and expression of line can be achieved with ink drawings. It’s very natural. I like it.

Over all I have learned quite a bit during this year. I have found where does my interest in illustration lay, I know which media is the closest to my practice and towards what style I am going. I am still a bit confused which exact direction I should take, what exactly I want to explore the most, because information I have gathered is pretty broad. But I hope I will have a chance to clarify it next year.