Week Nine - Weekly Evaluation

Reflect on your experiences and influences, both prior to and during the course. Evaluate how these ideas about different possible futures have altered; how has your knowledge of them changed? You might describe how the following have affected your ideas of possible futures:

• parents - I think both of my parents have really loved what they have seen of my work so far, they particularly liked my life drawings at the start as they said they were bot really shocked to see I could produce drawings to such a high standard as I normally say that I cant;t draw. On reflection, this is actually a really interesting point, as life drawings helped me to understand that should I be interested in going into the fine art pathway, everyone will have their own way of working which doesn't always have to be super lifelike and true to the eye.

• school - My school always used to say that I never did enough drawings, as I always used to want to work in graphic style methods creating abstract responses to tasks and thriving when I am creating minimalistic style responses. This suggests to me that maybe graphic design is the right pathway for me, however I wonder whether if I did graphics that i would miss the practical application of workshops like screen printing, and actual painting.

• influential peers - A lot of my friends are doing fine art, and although it is really important not to base your choices on your friends, I worry that maybe I will miss out by not choosing a pathway where we can all bounce off each others ideas. I think it is possible fine art may also be a bit too open for me, as from what I can understand the pathway tasks are very self led and free.

• other artists or designers - When doing my research for the projects over the last few weeks, I have noticed that the artists that stand out to me are mainly contemporary artists who use new and upcoming methods to challenge the art world as we see it today. For example I recently went to a Basquiat exhibition in London, and w shocked to see how 'childlike' some of his work is. Obviously, in reality it is as far from childlike as possible as the thought put into each one of his works is so vast. But it made me appreciate how fine art is such a broad and widely viewed subject, that if I were to take it on at pathway, it may help me to find my own individualised style I crave so badly.