Ouil502 ppp end of module evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation BA (Hons) Illustration Module Code: OUIL502 PPP Name: Dana Davis Student ID: 250772 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)

Evidence for this can be found on my blog, particularly in studio brief 3, researching into collectives and ultimately forming a group collective focusing on children’s illustration. This should also be evident in my creative report, looking at practitioners of interest and analyzing their work in professional contexts and reflecting on my own .

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)

Evident in studio briefs 1, 2 & 3.

Reflecting on practitioners relevant to my individual interest and practice, Researching into collectives, proposing an collective concept with a group appropriate to my interests. Also can be seen where I’ve blogged about personal projects and commissioned work.

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)

Can be found on my blog where I’ve documented studio briefs and also in reflective module evaluations.

Very 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,

This can be seen in studio brief 3, which included a group pitch presentation proposing a collective kid’s magazine, and also in my final 10 minute presentation which overviews my PPP experience of the last year.

good

good

Communication and 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.

At the start of this module i was quite conscious of the fact that last year it was the module that I hadn’t done as well at in comparison to others. I think more than anything that motivated me to want to do better, and looking back over my blog I do feel like I’ve achieved that.

Throughout this module I’ve learnt a lot about myself and my practice, I ended last year with the intentions that I wanted to further explore character, and I also wanted to find a balance between my digital and traditional work. Another topic I talked about was how I’ve always been one to prefer my initial sketches or sketchbook drawings to my final developed outcomes. I struggled with this through last year and made a point that I wanted to continue to develop and work on this through level 5. I believe that during this module I have worked and improved on all these things. Studio brief’s in particular that have helped me include process and production (working with print & character), applied illustration (the self-written brief) and responding to The Roald Dahl Literary Estate brief in responsive. During process and production, I found myself developing a new way of working with print that really opened up my eyes to creating fast & fluid images. I had never really considered myself a fan of print, and definitely not mono printing – which Is actually the medium I chose to do my finals in. Initially I started the project producing controlled fine liner/ pencil drawings without any thoughts on how I could translate that to print, but after workshops and doing my own experimentation I realized how helpful working with a such a quick drying ‘one print’ process was to breaking out of that ‘over working’ that I was used to. As a result, I produced lots of energetic fluid prints that I felt were far less static to my previous work. I was really pleased with my outcomes and I think I was able to translate that way of working into my sketching and drawings. With this brief being based around an author I also took the opportunity to focus on character, something which I continued when during responsive.

I chose to work On The Roald Dahl Literary Estate for this very reason. I wanted to put what things I’d learnt in process and production to the test, to produce more flowing and exiting images. I decided to use my sketchbook a lot more loosely and not focus too much on the finished images. Instead I did lots of small roughs and experiments – just drawing freely without reference of over thinking. Even when it came to finals, I never really started them with the intention that that would be the finals, tried not to put that kind of pressure on myself and just let it happen. I feel like this was really rewarding for me. At this time, I was also discovering a new process of working which was hand drawing then coloring digitally. With this I was able to achieve a more professional finish, it helped me combine my love of just ‘drawing’ with a more practical and efficient solution to applying colour – i feel like it helps my work translate better in a digital setting, for example if it was put up online or in a digital portfolio.

As a result of this learning I decided to combine this new way of working with my love for character in the self-written 505 Brief. For me Applied illustration was a really big step into discovering who I want to be as an illustrator, I got to just be my own person and have fun with it and it got me thinking a lot more practically in the sense of where I could possibly sit in the commercial sense.

Another aspect of PPP that helped me think more about where I sit in the industry was studio brief 3 and the propose collective. I joined a group that had a shared interest in children’s illustration, and that process involved researching into that topic more. With doing responsive briefs such as the Roald Dahl Literary Estate and BEAR yoyo cards, I had already built up work in that field. This is something that I want to continue to explore as I feel like I fit well in this category – however I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s something I want to exclusively do.

Thinking about things I could have done better, looking back I wish I’d planned my time more appropriately. And I generally mean throughout the year and all the modules, I’m not very good at planning things ahead or sticking to pre-made schedules, so I tended to just take things as they came. As a result, I faced a lot of tight deadlines and stress when it came to hand-ins and submissions. I also wished I’d kept on top of blogging more, I think that at the start of the year, everything seems so far away and you just believe you have all the time in the world and you really don’t. An example of where time scales where an issue was when it came to my creative report. For starters I was a bit unprepared by only contacting one practitioner in particular – I ended up waiting around for a while for a reply until I realized I wasn’t going to get one. This meant that I had to start over and re-think a bit, which I did. The only problem was that I’d left it so late that i needed fast replies. Learning from before I contacted two more people (Hiller Goodspeed and Jack Teagle) and surprisingly they both actually agreed. One of the illustrators that I was most interested in hearing from took quite a while getting back to me and as a result I couldn’t feature them in my creative report which was disappointing as the interview would have been really insightful. Having said that, I did get a good response from Hiller Goodspeed and I was very appreciative of.

In future projects I want to keep up the same level of motivation throughout the year and not fall into the same trap of just sitting back and letting things happen, generally I just want to hit the ground running and keep up to date with everything and anything. I Also want to continue with my character work, and the same approach to working I picked up from process and production. If one things for sure throughout this year it’s that character has become my strong point. I believe it would also be beneficial to me to think more seriously about perusing children’s publishing/illustration more as it’s proven to prominent topic for me this year. Something that I’d like to do more of or explore in level 6 is narrative. I said I wanted to do this at the end of level 4 and I did look into it a little but never really as a full focus, it’s just something I feel like I’d enjoy, and it’s something new for me.