Scott Grant
Evaluation
& Reflections
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EVALUATION & REFLECTION
of my
DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
What you are evaluating - My piece that I created for our project about digital illustration.
Does this represent your original idea? - A few things that were part of planning process made it in, namely the helmet, glove, and a similar gist with several things appearing from a single object. However many of the more ambitious ideas with posing didn't get in because I wasn't confident in doing them.
Is this illustration a good representation of you? - I'm not exactly sure. Most of the things I decided to put in were things that I was in contact with recently or had previously referenced. Though you can say that the types of things I've referenced can represent the types of things I'm interested in.
Does this represent your personality? - I can't say 100% that it represents me, during the production I can remember being told to reference previous works that I've done so I wasn't thinking of them representing who I am.
Does your work grab attention? How? - I'm not sure if it'd grab attention, think if my artwork was part of a collection, with the lack of a deep meaning, strange design, yet not weird another to be considered "abstract", I don't get the idea that people would be going out of their way to look for it.
Does it have a message? What message? - No, it was made to show and reference my previous work with no alternative message.
What object stands out most? Why? - The right gear. It has a standout colour scheme, more details compared to the rest of the piece, and has a strange wobbly design that likely not many other people would explicitly show.
Did you work with peers during this session? - Not really, beyond help from the teacher and teaching assistant I was solo for all of this.
What new skills have you developed during this project? - Before this project I had very little to no experience with digital software, and had never seen Photoshop or Illustrator before.
What skills would you like to develop further in the next project? Why? - Along side more software like Adobe After Effects I want to expand drawing in general and posing, like how I originally intended my work to be done.
Did you plan your time effectively? - Likely not. I didn't have a concrete idea for everything, having a tight schedule to do specific things, the best way to describe how things went was just doing what I thought was right when I had the chance to do it.
Did the Gantt chart help you plan and organise your project? - Partly; mainly it was used to get a sense of time rather than fully planning with it.
How did your design decisions affect the success of this project? - With the aim of referencing every piece that I've done during the project caused me to add much more details and implement them more creatively than if I didn't do it in that way.
Do you feel it was a success? Why? - For what it became, a large collection of references, it went well enough, having media references, method references, and then mixing them together.
Have you enjoyed this project? - I'd say so, with thinking of how best to reference different pieces, testing techniques, and so on; it was fun to do.
What was the best part? - Adding details, like the second colour to the elk antler, the face to one of the left gear's teeth, and other similar details, I enjoyed adding to them.
What was most challenging? - The first sketches/coming up with a solid idea. It was tough to come up with an idea but it was tougher to draw them to a point that they were acceptable for me, I've already brought up how I wanted more posing with a more dramatic feel but I wasn't happy with what I created.
What would you do differently in the next project? - Aside from what was previously mentioned, I'd likely make more of an effort during planning, doubling down by creating more sketches and being even more experimental.
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An Evaluation of an Object
The piece here appears to be things that you'd find on the ground (zipper, plugs, pebbles) tied together in string all to make up a shape of a seahorse.
Part of me is thinking that this is suppose to be the type of artwork that's about pollution in the ocean, with using things that'd wash up on the shore.
But if that was true then I'm not sure why there is natural pebbles here if that was the case, to me it feels less of a message about pollution and rather just someone made a seahorse from things they found on a beach with no message.
A thing to note is the colours, it seems that the colours the piece has are what the objects originally had. Which is how I can partially tell what the objects are, as what I believe are the rocks have a normal grey while there's a metal-looking part being yellow and possibly clippers with the plastic being red.
While I like it visually when I start to think about if it's suppose to have a meaning then it falls apart, but if it's just a thing someone made for fun then it'd feel better. If it was trying to be a message about pollution then I'd remove the stone parts and replace them with more plastic and metal items so it'd be more consistent.