Critique

Critique

This course has been interesting and engaging. It has pushed me out of my comfort zone and has really challenged my creativity.  

I have faced several challenged along the way. When I started this course I had a vague idea and what I wanted to do. It was a very vague idea. I realise now that I should have narrowed this down earlier on as this would have allowed me more freedom and more time to develop my work. I didn’t push my self enough. I played it safe for the first few assignments. After this, I stepped out of my comfort zone as I realised I needed to work on improving and developing. Once I did this, I found my work improved significantly and I was really enjoying experimenting. 

I had a few issues with my print quality and my collage techniques. In hindsight I should have fixed my printer before submitting for the assignment, however I didn’t. I went on to fix the issue and the further images were of much better quality. My collage techniques did need work. I believe a lot of this was due to practice. I hadn’t done any significant collage work before. Once I realised my mistakes, for example bad cutting techniques making the lines too harsh and not outlining properly, I was able to work on these and I did improve over time.  

My work is very different from what I envisaged on day one, but that is to be expected. I have developed and so has my work. My work has had its ups and its downs. But I feel this has all contributed to my resulting work. 

I had some health issues myself and also with a close family member being diagnosed with Motor Neuron and subsequently dying during this course. These events did push me back and have effected me; I have carried on throughout this course. I have had set backs but I have always pushed forward and now at the end I feel that I have created a cohesive series of images.