OUIL404 Visual Language End of Module Self Evaluation

Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION	Level	04
OUIL404 Visual Language	Credits	20
End of Module Self Evaluation

NAME	Sam Metcalf

1.  Which practical skills and methodologies have you developed within this module and how effectively do you think you are employing them within your own practice?
I have found the compassion task in this unit have been vey effective in making want to apply it to my own practise. As it has made me not only think how my work is built up and looks but how other illustrator and artist work is done, its made me see art differently.
2. Which principles/ theories of image making have you found most valuable during this module and how effectively do you think you are employing these within your own practice?
Planning my work before hand and doing roughs/scamps to help with the first stages of compassion. By drawing basic shapes of the elements of the image I’m about to make helps with a few different versions of the different layouts the objects could be in. Also it helps to apply colour to these roughs to see if the colours are going to work together and the balance of each colour is ok, its better to find the mistakes of these early steps before iv put a lot of time and effort into creating a finished piece.
3. What strengths can you identify within your Visual Language submission you capitalise on these?
Mainly the importance of planning out what I’m going to construct and working out how the final image is going to look before starting on the final image, Trying different features in different places rearranging and trying things I don’t think are going to work in roughs to really see if they do or don’t work. Not using as much detail as I feel is need basic shapes can be enough to see how something is going to look without putting hours in to find out it doesn’t work.
4. What areas for development can you identify within your Visual Language submission and how will you address these in the future? The early stages of this unit like the shapes, textures and tones tasks. I feel it took me a while to really understand what this unit was all about and in the early stages it did not have my full attention as I dint understand why we were doing these kind of tasks. But as the unit got to the other subjects like line of sight and depth I started to understand what it was trying to teach us. It was whilst doing one of the later tasks I could see why having a better understanding of how textures could of improved what I was working on.
5. In what way has this module informed how you deconstruct and analyse artwork (whether your own or that of contemporary practitioners)? Understanding how they where constructed and the different rules of compassion have helped me understand why images and done like they are.
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
The evaluation of your work is an important part of the assessment criteria and represents a percentage of the overall grade. It is essential that you give yourself enough time to complete your written evaluation fully and with appropriate depth and level of self-reflection. If you have any questions relating to the self-evaluation process speak to a member of staff as soon as possible.