As we are coming to the end of the final year it is a good time to look back and reflect on the time. At the start of the year I wrote about some of the hopes and fears I had for the year and beyond it and about the opportunities I felt would be most beneficial to me through the year. I'm now going to reflect on these and the final year of the course.
To start with I feel that my style of working have developed a great deal since the beginning of the year. I have finally had the confidence to mix my collage work with my ink drawings, something I've wanted to do for a while without much success. I think my work is a lot more polished and professional looking than it was at the start and if I continue in this style and become more confident using it I could really improve the quality of my work. This process of finding a new, potentially stronger way of working has also helped me with another hope I had, gaining more confidence in my own work. Although I still feel I need to produce a lot more in the style to get used to working in it, I feel comfortable with it and my work and am happy for people (such as the industry visitors) to see my work. My last hope for the year was to graduate. I don't know if Ive succeed in this but I hope I have!
When thinking of what worried me in the coming year I stated that the potentially heavy workload on the course and the prospect of becoming more independent in my learning where top of my list. I believe that although through the first half of the year I seemed to work rather slowly in my collage based style after developing the mix with collage and ink this quicken considerable and the amount of work I produced picked up pace, making it easier to finish all I had to to graduate. The confidence I feel I have gained in my own work has made the act of becoming more independent a lot easier and I have made decisions about my work which I'm glad I did and changed the direction of it for the better. Although I still need a little reassurance in my new working style I think I trust my own opinion a great deal more than at the start of the year.
Lastly the opportunities that I have been given this year have greatly helped me in my future goals. The advice given on promotion such as business cards, postcards, website, portfolios etc have been invaluable to me and has brought in to focus the reality of trying to get work in the industry and the effort and dedication in all areas it takes to do it. The portfolio reviews, talks and visits to people currently working in the industry helped me a great deal, not only in advice and guidance but to have the confidence to see that this is something I can do if I commit to it and work hard. The final opportunity I was looking forward to was to work on a project of my choosing. I have enjoyed this a great deal and have really found what sort of illustrator I want to be in the future.
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