Getting ready to 3D model !

Week 20

This week since I received my second lot of feedback on my character design and generally my the comments were pretty much saying that i was ready to begin my 3D modelling and to create some orthographics. Creating my orthographic for my character I found both difficult and fairly easy. I think difficult since I struggled to create my side view orthographics, as it was slightly difficult to get the right proportions and general feel for how the side would look, I feel it is definitely something I need to improve on and my end side reference wasn't all that good. I did however find it fairly easy to create my front view reference since  my initial design and final design already were front view so I think that I gradually had a really good idea of the proportions and looks of the front view, as I worked so much with it.

I also decided that I wanted to double check my colour distribution on my final design to ensure that I was happy with where each colour was as I was happy with my chosen pallet but not on the distribution. so I complete a page in photo shop where I fiddled around with my colours and ended up deciding that my original colour layout was much better so I stuck with that.

For my Life drawing class we mainly focused on proportions and foreshortening. This I have always found a bit of an area that I really need to practice a lot and it definitely isn't my strong suit. I do enjoy the short quick drawings in the beginning as warm up but do feel that I either need more time to plan out my final drawing or to work faster with my planning out.

Also for my critical studies session we were really focusing on being able to give feed back in a positive and constructive way. Since for example in industry if we feel a clients specifications aren't realistic then we need to be able to give constructive feedback in a positive way for professionalism and to ensure we don't loose the clients business, plus it also helped for me at least to understand how to take constructive feedback when it's given to me.

To do this firstly I filled out a sheet on what I did with written feedback comments on my work and then we partnered up with a peer to fill out an assessment sheet for the other based upon evidence of work provided to us on our character project. Personally at first I found it a little difficult to be a little more expanded with the feedback and comments I wanted to give. One hand I understood that I could only actually give feedback on the evidence I had in front of me and on the other I wanted to ask questions, give advice and talk about any other aspects hat may have been done and not shown in the evidence, so I found that slightly frustrating. The marks and advice i got back off of my partner I found very helpful.