Project 8 - Starting Again

Having already attempted to work through this part of the project I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with my work and disappointed with my results. I then became increasingly stressed as the deadline date approached and I was no further along. I was becoming more and more tempted to rush work and to say it was "good enough" yet when I looked at other peoples learning logs in an attempt to inspire myself I just found myself feeling even more downhearted. I really needed to break this cycle so I contacted my tutor who is always extremely helpful and supportive.

After a break I decided to go back to the beginning of this project and start again completely. I really want to focus on producing quality work and making sure I really use the exercises to try all the methods I can so that I have a good set of resources to build on further along in the course. I think it's important to do a great deal of experimentation now so that I don't have to do it all again in the next module.

A positive thing to come out of this is that while frustrated I found it very therapeutic to collect source material for my theme book and work freely in my sketchbook. I have previously struggled with this area of work and so it's nice to see the improvement. I think it will also put me in a good position when I come to start my final project.