I've Just had a performance review before my formative one at Christmas and disappointingly it wasn't good. I think the course team are genuinely disappointed in the whole of the year for the amount of effort we've put it in. The course team want to see more work from us. With myself I don't think its effort that I'm lacking, it's the fact I'm quite slow at whatever I do so it doesn't reflect on my work very well as in quantity. I focus too much on getting all my drawings looking good rather than doing quick sketches that are wrong and improving them. The course team have said it's about showing your working out and how you got to your successful final piece.
So to improve on this I have decided to do more still life in my free time, even if it's just my hand or something really simple, just continue to draw it over and over until I get it right. I may even start taking my journal to the pub for example, just to scribble while I'm socialising to build up a wider range of ideas for next assessment. This course is a big step up from college so I just need to settle into the swing of things and I'm sure the speed of work will take care of itself.
I started my architectural project a few days ago now, I'm finding it really difficult to get the shape of the building I chose. I keep messing up the geometry so that when it renders there's harsh shadows on the material I assigned to it to check for problems. I'm trying my best to correct them but there are so many vertex's hanging about that don't do anything it's hard to find out what effects what. I'm debating starting again but times getting shorter so it seems a bit risky. When I open the UV editor it's such a mess that it seems like starting again would help but I'll see how it goes. The textures I got for this building aren't tiling great either, I've spent hours on them so its really frustrating to see your efforts going to waste.
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