Self Evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation

BA (Hons) Illustration

Module Code: OUIL502 PPP

Name: Joe Baker

Student ID:JB259571

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, Storyboards, Development Sheets etc.  (No more than 75 words)	Your grade Using words: > poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent
5A3: Demonstrate an informed understanding of professional context of their practice within the creative industries and cultural environment. (Knowledge & Understanding - Research and Critical Awareness)	This is evidenced on my blog, where I have investigated other artists work and where in the creative industry it lies, also how it could possibly inform my own own	satisfactory
5B2: Identify and analyse the challenges and opportunities offered by future developments within individually appropriate areas of creative practice. (Cognitive Skills - Problem Analysis, Problem Solving)	Evidenced on my blog, Where I have shown interest in other artists work and the journey they have taken to become a professional in the creative industries, this was done through interviews and by researching them	good
5C2: Develop a body of work in response to a defined brief that effectively demonstrates professional working practices in research, planning and communications. (Practical Skills - Visual Quality and Conceptual Development)	Demonstrated on my blog, I haven’t done any practical briefs for this particular module but I did work for short competitions and a commission for other modules, which have informed my personal practice greatly	Satisfactory
5D2:Employ a range of appropriate professional communication methods to record and present their own creative practice, concerns and ambitions. (Key Transferable Skills, Organisation, Communication and Evaluation)	Evidenced on my blog, where I have successfully communicated with a professional artist and received information which will inform my own practice and creative journey	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 and post the PDF as your final post on your OUIL503 blog. Also, please cut and paste the text from this box into the final page(s) of your OUIL502 Project Report.

At the start of this module I was looking forward to it because I had enjoyed ppp last year as we got the freedom to make work that we wanted to make, for example the poster. Now that we are at the end I am a bit disappointed that I haven’t done much work outside of the college modules, however I feel that now we have the summer break in a couple of weeks and no college to think about it will let me be creative and practice making some work of my choice which I’ll enjoy.  Although I haven’t done much practical work for this particular module, I have actually learned a lot over the year in terms of my own practice and I’ve picked up some new skills along the way. For example, going out meeting someone about a commission, this was for the responsive module but it has benefitted me and given me the confidence to do it again as I know this will be a regular thing to have to do after I graduate. I also now know that I want to concentrate on editorial illustration, and have learned some new practical skills which will help me achieve my own visual signature, like scanning in gouache paintings and creating images made up of multiple layers. I have also realized that contacting professionals isn’t as scary and as big of a task as I thought it would be, even though most didn’t reply the ones who did seemed very nice and keen to answer my questions, I believe this is definitely a good way of making contacts in the creative industry. I also went to a couple of exhibitions I found out what a great source of inspiration this is, as I’ve not really been to any that interested me before this year. Something which went well was the creative report where we interviewed a professional, this is surprising because I kind of left it till last minute and started to panic that I wasn’t going to get anyone in time. But someone replied and was very swift to answer my questions, it was an exciting experience because I’ve looked at their works for a long time on Instagram and then to suddenly get a message from them was really weird. I wish had done more in terms of doing practical work other than college stuff, but to be honest I’ve been quite stressed for the whole year because of all the work so any free time I did have was spent doing uni work, never just randomly drawing/ painting or making personal stuff. Maybe I should have set myself a personal brief early on so I could have experimented and recorded all my steps on the blog. I also wish I didn’t let this presentation affect me so much, speaking in front of a class of people is a massive deal for me and I’ve found it very hard to cope with over the past few weeks. As its got closer all my other work has just seemed to grind to a holt and it takes me a long time to do any work related task because I spend most of it replaying how the presentation might go over and over in my head, I managed to do it last year but went though a similar sort of thing. Seeing as we don’t have any tuition on them I guess its something ill just have to deal with until I’ve finished the course. I am going to take forward my new found confidence in contacting people outside of the college about my work, for example the professional illustrator and the man who commissioned me to draw him some designs for a skateboard. I am also going to apply what I’ve found out about the importance of a visual signature to my work in level 6, this is actually my main aim. To start making work I actually like and to keep developing that style, because ultimately this is the only way im going to progress. I don’t want to end up making work I don’t like for a living, or even end up in a totally different job than illustration as a result of not finding any briefs. So the main thing I am going to apply to future modules/ projects is my awareness that graduation is looming so concentrate on making good quality work, whilst still experimenting as this is the only way to learn.