Summary

The purpose of this assaignment was to help us to develop our observational and drawing skills. Eventually, as a designer, doing a weekly observational drawing will help us to gain confidence when we need to draw out our ideas.

For the drawing exercises it would have been nice to of had more practical lessons as a class (for example set up a still life to draw from) but I coped well by doing it out of University independently.

For the other side of the brief- computer skills- I found it a bit more challenging as I had to follow my tutor, Paul's instructions while also taking screen prints and documenting notes. I made sure at each lesson I documented all what I had done and learnt.

Self assessment EPP

Gantt Chart

 Evidence of a Gantt chart.This is a Gantt chart- a timetable that helps me to organise my 6 weeks of a project. I have done the Gantt chart for my semester 2 assaignment- Design& Materials. On the first week I started research for my power point and on the second week I had finished it and presented it to the rest of the class.  I had drawn and wrote about my design concepts throughout the project up until week 5. Half way through the project I had already started putting together my technical drawings and collecting materials for my model building. The last couple of weeks I had finished my model building and produced a client board. This is a good way to plan your weeks and it helps you to know what you need to submit.

Strawberry

I have finished up with a strawberry and again as you can see, just like the pepper, I have gone over it with the red felt tip and worked into it with a biro pen. This technique gives a bold effect that is eye-catching. What did I learn? The shadow was produced from natural light from the window and when I turned on the light in the kitchen the shadow was of a different shape- the same shape as the strawberry as the light was coming direct from above. I would have liked to have shown the shadow in my sketch as the shadow produced by the kitchen light. Time taken: 45minutes.

Teddy Bear

I like the idea of collages so I used a McDonald's bag wrapper as a page background. This time I've not only drawn the object but drawn what is in the background which is part of a chair, fridge and kitchen drawers. This piece of work took me 1hour and 15minutes. I find having the McDonald's wrapper as the page background interesting as it contains its own images which also look like sketches and adds some colour to my work. How could I improve? Well sometimes things look better when it comes in multiples as there is more to look at, therefore I could have drawn two bears of two kinds and sizes and positioned one behind the other.

Pepper

This is my favourite colour piece of work; the inside and the outside of a red pepper. My colouring crayons were a bit soft so I went over the colour with a red felt tip which made the colour more brighter. After that I still felt that the sketches needed some more working on so I used a black biro pen to work into them and it instantly made the work stand out. Like other sketches I have added a background but with this one I decided to show the surface in which the objects were on- a table - the table cloth. The page just feels like it has to much empty space so I wished that I had drawn the sketches bigger and if I was to do something like this again then I will use pastels as I can blend the colours. But all in all this took 1hour and 10minutes.

Boxes

2 boxes- 45minutes sketch. I thought it would be nice to sketch something simple again. These are two different purpose boxes, one is a fragrance box and the smaller one is a jewellery box. Both of which are made of two opposite materials. It took so long because I kept getting the proportion wrong and even the finishing piece looks as though it doesn't have parallel lines in places and it was even harder because I positioned the boxes on an angle. Just like the coffee, sugar, tea jars sketch I think that this sketch could look just as nice with a background, not necessarily newspaper but another texture/source of material.