End of Module Student Evaluation

BA (Hons) Illustration

Module Code: OUIL504 Illustration 1: Production & Presentation

Name: Kayleigh Wilson

Student ID: kw265100

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, Stings, storyboards, development sheets etc.  (No more than 75 words)	Your grade Using words: > poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent
5A5:  Demonstrate an informed understanding of issues relating to image, media, format and context through the delivery of solutions to identified visual problems. (Knowledge & Understanding -  Critical Awareness)	Addressed brief as a figurative drawer and analised ways I could use mediums to benefit style and concept, and reflect core ideas and responses to my author. SKETCHBOOK	Good
5A6: Understand the potential and limitations of a range of processes, technologies and techniques involved in the development and production of work for print and screen based delivery. (Knowledge & Understanding -  Research)	Through concept development and testing media. Research, inductions, tutor guidance and online resources to better understand media and my authors and my place within it. SKETCHBOOK, BLOG, PRINTS	Good
5B4: Analyse and critically evaluate primary/secondary source material to inform the development and contextualisation of ideas, concepts and products through individual responses to set briefs. (Cognitive Skills - Problem Analysis, Problem Solving)	Researched Carl Sagan books and articles. Researched related themes to work. E.g. human evolution, species origins, geological timescales of fauna. Looked at artists who work in monoprint, linocut and screenprint. Designed drawings to work well in given medias. SKETCHBOOK, BLOG, PRINTS	Good
5C4: Select, manipulate and apply appropriate media, processes and technologies in the development, production and presentation of ideas, concepts and products. (Practical Skills -  Practical and Conceptual Development)	Learned necessary computer programs to prepare and realise moving pictures. Storyboarded concepts and developed visual compositions and narrative to compliment print designs and ideas. BLOG, STING, PRINTS	Good
5C5: Identify, evaluate and apply practical/technical processes, materials and media in order to produce technically competent and conceptually appropriate outcomes. (Practical Skills - Visual Quality and Technical Competence)	Worked with screenprint and developed work through trial and error while learning the process. Developed Photoshop and After Effects skills and put that knowledge towards animation Experimented with all three media in brief, problem solved and decided on strongest concept/technical based idea. Worked with drawing tools that complimented screenprint process and allowed figurative designs BLOG, SKETCHBOOK, PRINTS, STINGS	Good
5D4: Demonstrate the ability to communicate the development and resolution of ideas through appropriate visual and written presentation of work. (Key Transferable Skills - Presentation and Evaluation)	My visual ideas are all presented in the following: Final Screen print series, animation, blog, Sketchbook, experimentation in lino and monoprint. Concept development throughout all areas of media evidenced in sketchbook and responses to research in blog	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, print out a copy to submit with your portfolio of work and post the PDF as your final post on your OUIL504 blog.

This Module has been an exciting and challenging exploration into developing concepts, both technical and conceptual, artist research and an introduction into new media, procedures and software. My author was Carl Sagan, someone who had an outlook on life that I respect and admire. In my work I strove to reflect ideas and concepts that he taught about, and furthermore, my personal response to them. I stayed away from the space exploration element of his work, but instead geared it more towards his teachings of human exploration, development and ideals. Societal struggles and moral compasses in everyone of us were something that in my opinion led him to do the work that he did. Which is why he was not only a scientist, but a teacher as well. For our first project we developed a Zine. I struggled with this as initially I didn’t even know what a zine was. I based the concept around the origin of words, specifically words to do with outer space. I wanted to illustrate the beauty and origin of these words we use today that may seem commonplace. The long history they carry with them rooted in mythology and first widely recognised western documented exploration of the cosmos. Carl Sagan would often mention the origin of a word in his documentaries and writings and I remember how much my appreciation for that word grew instantly. Due to the tight schedule of this short brief I ended up having a few regrets. I didn’t get to print my zine, instead submitted the one I had done by hand, and I would have liked to make the message of the Zine a bit less vague. Technically as well, I feel that I didn’t do the concept justice with the quality of my drawings. The Editorial Brief was a very exciting project. I enjoyed the short tasks set, and the emphasis there was on developing multiple designs, thumbnails and sketches to study the different elements that go into making an editorial piece, and how multiple illustrations could work in harmony within one article while highlighting different topics and elements. I enjoyed discovering new artists through this brief, and learning about the conceptual and symbolic nature of many editorial pieces. This type of art has a great element in creating concept while delivering or highlighting a message; all the while working alongside a written piece. At times even using the text itself to illustrate the idea. I kept my ideas very simple and used word association to illustrate concept along with personal response to his work. I picked an article Sagan wrote called Why We Need To Understand Science, I took that sense of urgency and danger from his  article and translated into the mood of the drawings. I worked in pencil, and took those into photoshop, at the end I decided to do some hand drawing illustrations using traditional media such as pen and ink. I was really pleased with the outcomes of all of my pieces for this brief, and there is very little I would change from my approach, delivery and outcome. I also discovered a love for a different type of illustration, one I hadn’t been able to take the time to research, explore and analyse before then. Printed Pictures has been the brief where I have explored most media, concepts, contextual development, exploration and learned an array of different skills, both traditional and digital. Just by the sheer number of inductions and immediate application of these new skills to our projects. It has been a sometimes daunting, but extremely rewarding learning experience, that most times was so entertaining, it didn’t feel like learning. I experienced ups and downs of having to drop concepts and start anew, and application failures where ideas didn’t work on the medium I had planned. I problem solved in various aspects of my illustration and process, and experimented with ways in which I could retain my figurative style while meeting the criteria and developing my work. I learned about human evolution and human history through my research. I overcame my fear of the print room and digital programs and delivered final polished work. Every step of the way, teacher and peer feedback was massively beneficial in getting a new perspective on the work I was doing and how my ideas translated through illustrations, as well as how they could be technically better. This has been a long and deeply rewarding Module and if I could do anything over, it would be using the resources our school provides more readily, sooner.