Evaluation

I think my largest failure with this module has been my time management and organisation. I have done most of the work for this when I’ve not had enough time left to achieve what I wanted. My lack of time has also meant that I’ve not really been able to explore any new options, I just had to finish whatever I already had. I’d say the largest reason that my organisation of this module has been so bad is because it is one like responsive that just keeps ticking away in the background with a reassuringly far away deadline. The length of this module leads to thoughts that say its okay you’ve not done it right now because the deadline isn’t for months and you’ve got a more pressing deadline to take up your time. This viewpoint has meant that I ended up continuing down a path that I don’t think has worked like I originally intended. While I do like the plan I made to draw a character in different locations in theory, I don’t believe it worked in practicality.  When I was actually sat in these locations trying to force myself to create characters it just didn’t work, there would be too much pressure to create something. Nearly all the characters I made like this were incredibly subpar and not something I would be proud to show someone.  I think to have got around this I would have had to be focusing on this module as the main module but as I had other modules to complete and commitments I couldn’t give this the amount of time it really needed. In the future I’m going to make sure I allocate my time appropriately, so that even If I cant give it the amount of time that would be the best, it would still have the same amount of time as my other modules get.
 I am pleased however with the characters I made in the hospital. They were born out of boredom and I think that may be the key to being creative or at least one of the methods, as it doesn’t always work. If you are bored, restless and comfortable you can create things out of nothing or the environment you’re in but if you are bored, cold and uncomfortable you’ll just get frustrated that you have to stay bored, cold and uncomfortable until you have made some characters.  The hospital was the break I needed to be able to do this module and it was somewhere that I went to without the intention of drawing.  As I created so many characters in there I changed my publication to have them all in the same room. I’m happy about this as I got to do a drawing that shows where they are as objects and where I got the idea for the characters from.  I do wish however that I had found more characters in that room as I would have liked at least another two to four characters in the publication.