Assessment

Assessment Reflection

This assessment process was at first very daunting, I thought that there were many aspects of the process that I would struggle with. As I started to revisit the tutor feedback and read through the comments I started to see just how far I had come.  From those early tentative steps that I had taken, I could see my confidence growing.  I wanted to learn more about the different media that I could use and so I started to use my sketchbooks and get ideas from the experiments with this.  This was where I became more excited about my work and realised that drawing had much more potential that I had imagined.  

I found the books on the reading list, particularly ‘Drawing Now – edited by Downs, Marshall, Sawdon, Shelby and Tormey’ and ‘Experimental Drawing by Robert Kaupelis’, showed me a side of drawing that I had never seen before.  I enjoyed looking at artists, going to exhibitions and writing about what I had learned from them.  Particularly in Part 5 where the research helped me to understand more about what emotions are can portray, and how Art can make us feel.

I started to look through my learning log and I could see where there were key moments in my learning that have affected my work considerably.  This has made me see where this could be taken further in the future.  Becoming looser in my mark making has always been very difficult for me but I can see that this is something that has been improving as I went along.  In Part 3 I can see how alternative ways of mark making have begun in my work.  Trying to move away from my comfort zone of pencil and charcoal is a journey that I am enjoying immensely. It is exciting to see what other mediums can produce.  I think that being more reflective about my work would help in the future, I am learning to do this more but I think I could get so much out of this.  I will try and learn to reflect more often and try and do this after each piece of work I produce.

I have been really fascinated by looking through my work to choose my best pieces.  This is because of the way that I have worked, sometimes there are pieces that I had not thought were not successful but on further inspection I can see what was working and what was not. I can read the tutor feedback with the work in front of me, which made me look at the work in a more critical way and learn from it.  I will try and use this method in the future, putting the work in front of me and going through the feedback. I think this may help me to be more reflective and teach me what to look for.  

The whole process of assessment has made me see the journey as a whole and made me look at my strengths and weaknesses within it. I think that I am able to take a lot from this and move forward with more confidence and creativity for the future.