Study task 1

Why Am I Here? - What Am I Doing?

5 reasons why you chose to study on this programme

1. I did the foundation at LCA and I was keen to continue my learning at the same place because i enjoyed my foundation year and found the way things were taught there really helpful and easy to understand/improve from.
2. I was very interested in doing an Illustration course particularly and the presentation that was shown to us back in my Foundation year made this course look really exciting.
3. I wanted to expand my knowledge of the illustration world, learn about illustrators, styles and techniques that I could use to improve my own practice.
4. I wanted to be in an environment with other illustrators and and a specialised learning programme specifically for illustration as other some other places I looked at didn't offer a specifically illustration course and instead had it in with Graphic Design.
5. I want to learn about the career of an illustrator and how to be one, in the presentation we were shown back in Foundation year there were talks on modules entirely for professional practice and even that we'd be taught how to invoice in the second year and go out and do live briefs.

5 things that you want to learn during your time on the programme

1. How to improve my compositional skills as I'm used to just doing floating spot images or images that are just one full page illustration.
2. More Photoshop skills as at the moment they are very basic.
3. How to make my work to a professional standard so i can compete in the professional world of illustration.
4. Colour matching and just picking the colours or colour schemes to use in projects as I lack control and tend to go overboard on colour.
5. New ways to work and produce work so that I have a variety of ways to complete a brief.

5 skills that you think are your strengths

1. Drawing with fine liners.
2. Creating 'silly' humour images.
3. Draw to think.
4. Can work for hours on end when I get into it.
5. Know a variety of methods and practices that surround illustration.

5 things that you want to improve

1. managing to draw characters the same over and over.
2. Setting out successful comics composition wise.
3. choice in colour/ Colour pallets.
4. Breadth of  skill; as in different styles and methods.
5. My professionalism and organisation.

5 ways in which you will evaluate your progress

1. Self Evaluation. Stepping back and deciding what works and what doesn't and what's appropriate.
2. Peer review. Showing other students on their opinions of my work.
3. Group Crits. Discussing the work in a group, its strengths, weaknesses and new directions it could go in.
4. Tutorials. Talking with a tutor about my work and progress and discussing the strengths and weaknesses.
5. Displaying. Displaying work and getting feedback off people possibly from feedback forms or on-line with comments.