First drawing tasks

Welcome to my first blog post! Today I would like to share my experience of my first art and design foundation task. 

Analysis:

Each if my given tasks were very interesting to say the least. Explaining my journey to college through only imagery was quite fun as I had a large array of ideas going through my mind, which had all been thought of in a very similar way to a storyboard. This I think wass the easiest task as everything happening so early in the morning had meant that my journey was fresh in my mind. In addition my task of outlining my personal objects, talking about them and my emotional thoughts towards them was even more exciting. This was purely because each of my objects had been related mainly to my story of my hobby of magic, with only a couple of objects not being related so much. I had many emotional attachments to each one but could only think of the first few that were related to each object. The task of taking one of these objects and drawing it in a very large scale was an easy one, but very tedious to get done within 10 minutes. Because of the limited time, I had only focused on the main colours of my object and not the full graphic detail, as the most important thing for me was to create the object on paper and make it instantly recognisable as one of my 10 items. The final drawing however which was to represent one of my objects in a piece that did not physically show it was quite daunting. Each if my tasks I believe was successful apart from this final piece - due to the idea coming into my mind with only 3 minutes of time left! However once this was in mind I found it very easy to represent on the paper, although not completely finished - however I would perhaps finish this another time. I did not receive much feedback, however the students siting in either side of me said that my final piece was intriguing due to how I made it look nothing like the object I was drawing ( healing crystals with a different property in each one).

Overall in each of the tasks I learnt that no drawing is wrong or full of mistakes, but can be done completely differently in a range of different ideas and representations. This was especially learnt from my final piece. In future works this experience would help me to think outside the box a little more, especially the idea of representing an object without actually drawing it. In my opinion I really like this idea as it would puzzle people and make them much more interested in my work, giving them an interest into what is represented on the page.

Analysing:

I believe that each of my works were successful in their own way, as they had all been completed within my 10 minute limit. However as mentioned in my reflection above, my final piece could have been made much better if I didn't dawn on the motive of wanting it to be perfect for the first time when oven the task. In all of my tasks this final work was the one I was least happiest with as due to it not being finished, however due to having my idea of how to represent this object that was being drawn, I was inspired to complete this today without any further difficulty. The 3 tasks of showing through drawn images my journey to college, emotional feelings towards 10 personal objects, and an enlarged drawing of one of those objects - was in my opinion the easiest tasks. If I had to pick a fault with each of these they would all have the common fault of me thinking too much about perfecting the drawing, rather than putting any thoughts that are related to it down on paper. In future work I will be thinking first of all ideas that come into my mind and perhaps taking aspects of each to put down on my paper, instead of wasting time thinking of which way would be more perfect. I was told about having some challenging days before my I started the course, and now I have a taste of what I can further expect after being given the final task!

Time management and planning:

To improve upon my current planning methods and time management, I believe that placing all ideas on my paper would be more suitable rather than wasting too much time thinking of the perfect idea to draw, and then not having enough time to finish my piece. To improve my planning, I think that writing all the ideas that pop into mind in my sketchbook, would give me a more visual aspect of what to be drawing, instead of having them in mind and possibly forgetting some ideas midway through a drawing. I could possibly learn more from my current planning patterns by asking my peers on how they would think about the situation. Some people of course would think in a very similar way in wanting it to be perfect for the first time, but by receiving many opinions from other students on how they would go about their work, I could mix and match and few different ways other than my own, and see what would work best for me, which would improve my future work as I would not be thinking as myself, but rather from another persons perspective.

Thank you for reading my first blog post! Stay tuned for next week, and until then,

Magical Wishes,

Saavan!