Freedom Evaluation

When I received the theme of FREEDOM at the beginning of the project, I was instantly taken by the idea of the quote; "Freedom Is a State Of Mind". So this idea lead me to make an idea of a bird in a cage with an open door  with a bird whom stays in the cage as he still thinks that he's trapped. For my research I started a Pintrest bored called "MFP". This stands for Major Final Project. On this board I pin many images of freedom quotes and images of things that resembles freedom. One I found my initial idea for the project I looked more into one artist in particular; Charlotte Miller, a ceramic artist who specialise in buggies. For the theme of freedom I looked mainly at emotional and physical freedom on a person which can affect them deeply in many ways. I also looked at the metaphor of birds being the freest animal on the planet which is another reason why I chose this as my final idea. For my research we got given 63 (10cmX10cm square) pages to use as a mini sketchbook instead of an A5, A4, A3 or even an A2 sketchbook. For some of my pages I decided to write one quote of freedom on them; on others, I drew freedom pictures on them. Then I stuck all the ones I had used onto an A3 page background. Afterwards; I took the remaining ones and also stuck them onto an A3 page but then drew onto them or even painted onto them and used letter sponges to write on a freedom quote to fill 12 squares. My ceramic artist; Charlotte Miller, has her own website and also offers to do classes so she can tech her skills to others.

Bird Research

Font Research

 

 On my final piece I have been in both the wood workshop and the ceramics workshop. So in the wood workshop I used all kinds of tool and media's during my time in there. Some of the materials were; MDF, glue, Dowling rods and wire. Some of the tool which was used was; a tenon saw, a pillar drill, a cross ended screw driver and cross holed screws etc. In the ceramics workshop I used all different tool compared to the tools in the wood workshop. These tools I used can be found in your ordinary household. For example; a rolling pin, a knife and also a wooden rod. Throughout the project I have used a varied range of media’s and I have applied them in different ways. The main type of media which I most commonly used was acrylic paint. I used this on a few research pages to paint in my drawings. I also used a lot of MDF in my final piece. I chose this material as it is one of the strongest resources I had you use. As for all of my abilities to draw and make 3D models, I believe that I have improved my skills compared to the beginning of the year. I think that my model making skills have developed a great deal more than my drawing skills. My time management abilities have been well tested in this final project as all the way though it seems I have been rushed to finish although I had to do things I have never done before.  These tasks include; writing a project proposal with no practice, do all research by our self’s with no aid, make up our own help question sheet to assist me in writing this evaluation. I believe it was not the best of ideas to make me complete these tasks with no support and no preparation. I think that if I would have had some practice on these tasks beforehand then I think I could have managed my time a whole lot better. If I was asked to re-do this project once again the thing I would have done differently are; take more time with my final idea and also do much more research. In contrast with my initial idea I think that my final piece has changed due to the fact that another student had the same idea and her design worked well with that idea better than mine so I changed the design a little bit. As for the successfulness of the project considering my final piece, I think that I could have presented the piece better and made it clearer to understand. I think my final piece is effective in ways such as; it demonstrates the quote I’m trying to illustrate and also I a good size for all to see. For my annotations I have written information about different birds on that research sheet.  My overall opinion of this project are; could have been more planned out on my part, more time could have been given to ensure a good grade at the end and also, spend more time thinking about what you want to achieve by the end of the project to best for fill the brief of standards I have set myself.