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this brief has been te most succesful for me developing skills. iv learnt to use a new program, a new digital program. after affects. learning that program was exciting, it came across as a basic program to use but actuily creating a piece on that program was testing, it was tiering and stressfull for someone whos digital level of skill was low. i still stand by what i said that i can use affter effcts well and that i understand it, but its more challanging when your using it in your own direction and making your ideas come to life. not only have i developed skills but some of my skills have grown. my digital skill have progressed alot. photoshop has been one of the main tools to this breif. affter a lot of cractise and homework iv learnt lots. and in doing so i belive from now on my practice will be much stronger for learning more about photo shop.

iv used mono printing for the first time in my practice up until this point iv been focus is on comic book style and the way that this impacted my work is that my main focus was line and shape and the way these can be used to build shadow and tone. introducing mono print made me conceder texture into my comic book work and how this can be applied to my drawing style. when i first tried mono printing, i wasnt confident in using it as a process of image making but i am now using it to enhance my images and enjoying this new method. using after effects have made me consider moveing images, so story boarding became important it became the go to thing! i was all ready confidant in thumb nailing but story boarding made me more confidant as a practitioner...learning story boarding developed my possibilities of my drawings and opened my eyes to other professions. the story boarding work shop was probebly the most beneficial class and part of the program

i always say that my strength is my drawing skill and in this case i feel it strongly. if it wasnt for my high level of drawing i think that after all the layers of mono print and textures the image would have been lost. i think its because of my understanding of an image has let me make all these textures and layers and still have a image that is understandable. i dont think i would have been able to complete this brief if it wasnt for my eagernes to addbt with the times and learn as much as i can with photoshop. so i think one of my strengths was keeping determined. because this breif was a long winded one, i feel that keeping on top of it was an importent task. because it run with other briefs it was easy to let your self get snowed under, i belive that one of my strengths is keeping my work organised and keeping a stable to do list.

like all the past breifs my weaknes has been my low level of digital. even though my photoshop skill has progressed loads since level 4 i felt i was in the deep end having to learn another program. i plan to work on my after affect skills through out my education. i plan to learn as much as posible as i do with learning photoshop. there has been a new weaknes for me during this brief. there was a few times that i fell flat and underpressure with my practice, i was comparing my self to others, i was comparing my realistic work to my more cartoon stuff and beating my self up deciding witch to focus on for the grades and my future. iv been recking my brains on the style of my work and what style it should be for the direction i go in. i was at my weakiest on this brief, i can say this has been the hardest few months of my professional\educational life. and going through that was the best thing ever. on the out come of that i felt a better understanding of were i want to be right now, i felt happier about my work. i have a clearer direction on were i want be/aim for. my practice has com on loads since. i do think the course takes you apart and then says okay mate, put your self back together. and im greatful for that because this brif has challanged me as an illustrator, as an artist, as an image maker and has now put me on the right track.

in the future briefs ill be a lot more open minded.before i had even picked up the tools to create a mono print i had already said it was rubbish and that i can not do it. i still cant create a nice image using mono print but i can use it to develope my image and make them look far more intresting. around half way through this brief i was ready for it to be over, now its come to the end i dont want it to end, because iv learnt loads on this brief. its challenged me that much that i analyzed everything about my place as an illustrator, this has been the most stressful brief yet and due to that im at a better level of confidence with my work and my aims.