Initially 4

Over the weekend I really got my head down and focused on my drawings, completing
six alphabet sheets.

'Alternative uses for a fork'

My favourite drawing from the series, 'jousting with a fork' 

'vegetable weapon', 'weightlift', 'xylophone sticks'

                                I was really able to use my imagination within this

                theme by coming up with obscure concepts and creating

                characters to illustrate the message. I might consider

                developing this at a later stage by combining the

                fineliner with different materials to give the drawings

                a greater sense of depth rather than just looking like

                a rough.

'Iconic Hairstyles'

I didn't really flourish on this theme as I found it 

relatively dull, lacking in imagination. I was just

simply drawing hair.

'Dance Moves/Styles'

I spent quite a long time on this alphabet, researching

different dance styles as well as compiling them with

ones that I am already familiar with. I used a brush pen

to create a stronger sense of bodily stance, movement 

and fluidity within the dancers.

Arabesque, Breakdance, Charleston, 'Dougie'

'Typical Teenagers'

'Myths/Commonly believed lies'

'Fictional characters that no one ever admitted to having a crush on'

'Traits of an anxious/awkward person'

Peer Review Session/Feedback

As a class we briefly went through what a group crit should entail. What is helpful, what is unhelpful and what we should gain from it as well as contribute to it. For example we should individually take interest in others' work showing them

respect and take enthusiasm in their work, when possible giving them advice on how

they can develop their work further or providing practitioners for them to study without being rude, patronising or giving unjustified answers.

Working in groups of four, it was really interesting to see how the different people in my group worked as individuals, and what they are interested in themselves and how that came across in their ideas.

I received some really kind, but honest feedback that was very constructive, and helped me see where my strengths and weaknesses lie within this project.

I was praised for my ideas being captivating and being appealing to a wide range of people when presented as a poster, which really gave me a motivational boost. My weaknesses arose within two of the themes, hairstyles and dog breeds being rather drab and not very imaginative, which I can say is true due to the difficulty of thinking of ten different individual and interesting themes to produce a whole alphabet for. 

The advice my group gave me for developing my final artwork was to carefully consider a layout for the poster by using photocopies of scamps and a lightbox to create an ideal arrangement, and also to choose which theme and style of working suits me the most.

I then filled in a self-evaluation form reflecting upon my own work and how I have performed. This includes the processes I went through to exhaust my ideas, how I intend to develop my work further and how I intend to generate the final piece of artwork.