End of Module evaluation.

1.  What learning have you inherited through this module and how has it impacted on your own understanding of professional practice? Consider yourself as a student at University as much as an illustrator
I have gained a better understanding of what illustration is, both the practise and how it is applied in different ways, editorial, digital/ website, and marketing. I am also beginning to build up my own opinion of what makes a great piece of illustrations for example a good aesthetic, the image has to have context and content but also I think an interesting process. I also think that this module has helped me think more about the work life balance. It has made me realise that having an even balance of both is very important and I think when this is correct you work more effectively and gain more enjoyment out of working in a creative environment.
2. What approaches/ types of research have you found most valuable over this module? Why did they have such an impact?
The most valuable types of reaurch is looking at other practitioners work and taking it apart and think critically about their intentions for the piece , the message they are trying the communicate and the process and method of image making the do this.  By looking at others work you gain a better understanding of the many different ways you can communicate to an audience but also you can set yourself aims or aspiration, they inspire you to try new techniques.  But by doing this also and using the pintrest page I have personally been able to indentify the work that I am interested in and this will in the future I hope help me to see where my work could fit into industry.
3. In what way has PPP informed the way your work in other modules and your illustration practice as a whole?
It has made me more aware of certain things when image making, like the aesthetic or context of my images. By thinking about how they look and where they would be seen , I think has helped me to give meaning to them and also seeing how they could exists in the professional world.  It has also given me a structure to look at when critiquing others and my work. But also using the pintrest boards to identity key featres in other artist images too , gives me an aim and a determination to improve the methods and reach that aesthetic or correct context.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your PPP submission and how will you address this in the future? I think that my final poster is hard to read. I think that I was over ambitions as I was trying to portray something that was complicated and very personal to me and that had a big impact on the personal and professional life. However just having the one symbol on the poster dose makes the image impactful and interesting. If I could go back and make changes I would maybe made the half tones smaller so you can see the brain photocopies clearly and, I wish that I did more colours because I would have like to have made crazy patterns and textures in the background.
5. What communities of practice and professional contexts do you intend to investigate further as you approach level 5? Why do they appeal to you?
I would like to look into editorial illustration more, I would really like to incoripate more print media into editorial illustrations and it would be really exciting if I could find and interesting way to do this. I am also really interested in concept art and character building , I really enjoy coming up with strange and usual character and I would like to investigate this further by looking more into concept art as I don’t know much about it.  However one big thing that I feel needs addressing not just for this module but for all is my observational and reference drawing skills. I need to improve them and by doing so my drawing skill and confidence in them will improve.
6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas: (please indicate using an ‘x’)  5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor
	1	2	3	4	5
Attendance					x
Punctuality					x
Motivation			x
Commitment			x
Quantity of work produced			x
Quality of work produced			x
Contribution to the group		x