1st year.

It is crazy to think that just September gone I was nervously starting the first year of my degree and now it’s nearly over. Looking back at the projects that I did at the start of the year I can see how I have advanced already just over a few months. I like the fact that I can look at my own work and see that there is a change enabling me to see my own progress, it’s a really nice feeling rather than just been stuck not leaning anything new or excelling in an area that I possibly didn't start out so well in.

The first project that I had to do when I first started the course in September was all about illustrations, doing the right research to produce image boards for our portfolio, which a designer could work from easily seeing which market level they were looking at and the type of client they were design for. But luckily for me, I was the designer aswell as teh researcher and we had to go on to create a capsule collection from our research.

The theme that I chose to base my project around was water; I looked at different aspects of it and it in different forms. I also looked at the ordinary things such as sea life and the ocean. I used the colours that I found fitted most which were greens and blues and got the best effects when I used water coloured paints.

I will admit illustrations are not my stronger point at the minute; it is definitely an area that I aim to focus more on so that I can become stronger and more confident with it. Regardless though I felt like I had gave it my best shot and I had picked up a few helpful tips that I could use again.

We had to draw our own body blanks too; I did find this a bit challenging but was proud with the overall outcome of them, as they had improved massively from whenever I had tried to do my own in the past.

I also got to try my hand at drawing flats/ technical drawings. Again I had never drawn in this style before but I really enjoyed it, and found that I felt more relaxed and happy with them, a bit more than what I was with my actual designs.

For this been my first degree project I was happy with my result and felt that it was a good start to the year. Clearly from this I can see where I did well and were I need to pay more attention to so that I can do better again in upcoming projects. I also enjoyed working in this style having a go at a little bit of everything allowing me to see which areas I work best in and enjoy the most as in industry I highly doubt I will be doing it all.