End of Module Student Evaluation BA (Hons) Illustration Module Code: OUIL502 PPP Name: Neneh Ayesha Patel Student ID: 258804 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, Development work, presentation/creative report
Very good
5B2: Identify and analyse the challenges and opportunities offered by future developments within individually appropriate areas of creative practice. (Cognitive Skills Problem Analysis, Problem Solving)
blog
Very 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, final illustrations
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 Evaluation)
Blog, creative report, life’s a pitch/ final presentation
Very good
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. In this module I feel I have made great progress throughout the year. I know that my practice will constantly be changing and growing, but I think that I am finally at a place where I’m happy with the work I’m making. Last year I found it hard to actually enjoy making the final pieces as I felt I had to labour over them to make better work. This always led to me overworking pieces, especially when it came to using Photoshop to edit. Less is more is definitely a thing that I need to take away from this year. I have started to accept that I do work quickly, but that doesn’t necessarily devalue the work that I make. I have to accept the strengths and weaknesses of my practice and build on them. I have also found that I love working in the studio - having the feedback from people constantly and them being able to offer up suggestions about artists that I might like. It’s interesting to see how some people refer artists to me that I already look at, or that are wildly out of my comfort zone. For example, Ben suggested that I look at abstract expressionists, which I was open to, and I’m glad I took the opportunity to widen my contextual influences as it really pushed my practice into a new direction. I think that the printmaking module was important for my practice in terms of how I put together an image, and also being able to work with a limited colour scheme, which I have consistently struggled with. Working with traditional media, I embraced making lots of textures to use and incorporate into the work. This led me to build up a lot of files that have different textures, so that I can use them as a catalogue instead of making new ones all the time. I think working in ink as well has influenced this - I love working in ink and watercolours and I’ve accepted that that is my strength and I should play to it. In terms of presentations, I am happy with the way that I conduct myself; even if I feel really nervous and start shaking, I still appear relatively clam and clear. I think that having cards as a prompt in case I completely forget my words is really useful and I hope to build on the confidence I have gained this year. Selling my work at the comic fair is also a confidence booster that has helped me to see my practice in a more commercial sense. I think that this is an area that I want to develop next year, going into the final year of studies and looking beyond to life after university. Trying to gain more exposure for my work through local zine and print fairs, and on social media is an area that I also want to develop. I have used the library and contextual research online a lot more to influence my work this year. This has allowed me to appreciate the process of monetising work. I tried this out with the comic fair and it’s not as daunting as it looks - I think I’ll always be a bit nervous about sharing my work with other people, but the fairs that I’ve been to are inviting and I am sure I can enter them next year. I have also found contacting people is not as scary as it seems and I will be contacting more agencies and practitioners over summer to build up my contacts. This year I think I could have been a lot more reflective throughout the course rather than just toward the end of the year. This may have pushed me into making more experimental work earlier on in the year. As it is, I still want to push myself out of my comfort zone and into making work that looks more hand-made, and keep working on briefs from an editorial perspective. Knowing that editorial work is my strength doesn’t mean that I can’t make there personal work that focuses more on narrative or informative pieces. I have started to learn that my practice can be made up of lots of different facets, which make me a fullyformed 3-dimensional illustrator.
Evaluation Guidance This should be a reflective summary of your experience across the module. -
How did it go? Where did your journey start, where did it end? I knew very little at the start of this module. At the end of the module I feel that‌
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What learning took place? What was useful to you? Be specific. New skills? New methods? New processes or approaches? Did you use the blog to reflect on your project development?
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What went well and why? What did you enjoy? What were you happy with as an outcome? Be critical and analytical. Why did you enjoy it? Perhaps identify particular sessions? This could be ideas, solutions to problems, studentship or research. How well did you use the studio? Did you invest enough time in the development and testing of your outcomes?
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What could you have done better? What were the problems you faced? What did you do to try to overcome them? This could be in reference to studentship, organization or blogging as much as studio practice.
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How can you apply what you have learned here for future modules and projects? Application and future thinking. Things you would do differently next time? What useful methods, processes and ideas will you take forward into the next module?
You may also want to consider: Self-questioning: How did your thoughts and opinions change as you progressed through the module? Feedback: What other people (tutors and peers) thought of work and how you responded to that feedback? Research: Did you use contextual research to inform your ideas, ways of thinking or understanding of the challenges set. This may include further research of your subject matter, slides from the presentations or use of the library.