Week 21: Reflection

IT seems pretty apparent that if a student doesn't do any work they will ultimately not learn anything. Sure you can be told what things look like and how they work but without going over it and trying it for yourself, you're never going to remember it.

ITs a useful thing that we learn something and then do an excercise about it. For visual design we learnt about single and double point perspective and produce images and also paintings with those techniques. Looking down the river has helped show how things disappear into a point even though i do still struggle with getting all of ground within a third of an image. Tricky seeing it in halves then squeezing it down but i will work on it. Two point perspective is used when viewing the corner of an object such as a building and then looking down into everything besides it.

3Dsmax excercises are useful to help drill those tools into your head. Being familiar with the professional practises is a great idea for getting us in line for moving on up. Working with tris and polys and doing texturing styles is great, especially to learn this early. Personally I 
would like to know how to set out texturemaps properly so that no space is wasted and people dont look down on you for bad usage.

Tieing in with that. I know we have to learn some things ouselves but perhaps a little bit of photoshop tutoring wouldn't go amiss. During summer I will definitely aim to up the quality of my digital paintings and work on my anatomy. I do draw bodies alot more realistically than i used to. I understand how things wrap together but there is still more i can learn. How muscles move  and restraints of the joints.

To add to that I will work on some 3D stuff, modelling a couple of toys i have and work on two areas. A shrine and my bedroom to have a go at modelling and texturing full environments and assests. I'll also have renders and objects to put towards my portfolio.

Also Ill be joining in on Del,Dan's and Mike's SUMMER WORKOUT if it fully goes ahead. Those guys work hard so if i follow in their footsteps itll really help me step up my game to at least be better than college standard when it comes to art