10 things that you have learned about yourself as an individual and as learner.
1. I love staying at uni late either for fun or for work - I do have a laptop at home. I found it is easier for me to focus at university because of the working environment and the internet is faster too.
These two photographs show me that most students found it easy to focus while they at university
2. I miss my cat and kittens so much - My sisters keep showing my cat's and kittens' photos and now I really miss them. 7 months to go.
These are the cats photographs that my sisters and brothers showed me.
3. I don't have confidence to not fail theory test. Arghh. - One of my target before going back to Malaysia this July is to have a driving licence. I once failed my theory test and I am afraid if i fail it again.
This article illustrated that a lot of people feel traumatic after failed an exam = normal.
4.Keep myself busy so I don't homesick - Indeed, especially busy with uni work. So thank you Fred for giving me lot's of work.
This article taught me to deal with homesickness and one of the point that the author said is to keep myself busy with things that I am enjoy doing.
5. I can draw better things whenever
I miss my family . - Especially when I get into that
moody doody mood, my hand just won't stop drawing. So there are
some pros and cons as sometimes I found it hard to concentrate but
sometimes this mood help me to draw more.
These are some drawings that I did when I was homesick. I missed my family.
6. I need to do 'to
do list' so I can manage my own time more - I am bad well, not really. But
I think I can sort my life more with 'to do list'
7. I have to prepare myself before crits or presentations - I am not very confident of talking in front of people especially with people that I bearly know; but preparing myself (in term of speaking) a night before crits or presentations will help me a lot
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| http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~cipolla/archive/Presentations/MakingPresentations.pdf |
This is a presentation by University of Cambridge - Tips how to be a good presenter etc.
8. I have learnt that the more you read the more you know about stuff.
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| my essay about world war one |
Before starting my degree, I know nothing about world war one, then I had to write a 3,000 word essay on world war one. I read like in between 10 and 15 source of materials and I am very pelase with my essay and knowledge about this topic
9. To cut myself from spending money is actually just don't let myself go to town and leave my bank cards at home or just don't take any money out of cash machine
A bear saving a fish for dinner
10. I miss sewing.
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| The dressmaking books that I borrowed |
I left my sewing machine in Malaysia. One day I got bored with OUIL405 coz I have been working hard, so I decided to borrow some sewing book hoping that I would gain some knowledge and apply it whenever I have my sewing machine with me.
10 things that you have learned about yourself as an illustrator.
1. Workaholic when
it comes to a deadline - I don't mind staying up late for uni work because
I am enjoying my course so much.
I have my own personal blog and I have been blogging for years and years. Here are a list of entry of me saying that staying after uni/college.
2. Sometimes I am afraid to 'let it fail' - We were having a Skype session with the Nous Vous and they us 'to let it be ugly' and 'draw whenever you feel good or bad and one of my favourite quote 'The beginning is always the hardest' so good luck Zatul.
My favourite quote from the article : 'Being wrong leads to being creative. If you’re never willing to be wrong, then you’ll never be as innovative as when your imagination is prodded by failure. You’ll just repeat what you already know over and over.'
3. If I keep trying, I will get a better
result (illustrations) - Yup, More experimentations and sketches I do = I will
have more choice and hopefully with get better results.
We had a talk with Simon, (Ralph Steadman's biographer) said that Steadman is a type of illustrator that 'learn to fail'. Btw, Steadman is one of the greatest illustrator in this century.
4. I know and love how to make my own pattern and have learnt a lot of - basically I saw Eric Carle creating his patterns and he even used a piece of carpet to get its texture and I was like 'What!'. It makes me realised that I can make pattern out of anything. All I need is paint and some unconditional tools. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX.
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| http://z-fakharuldin1316sp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/texture.html |
These are the latest textures that I created.
5. I love digital collage - Yes I love it, you know on Photoshop using the pen tool or the lasso tool to cut and paste textures.. Anyway, but I think I need to start exploring other techniques. Urghh.
This is my behance.net and some of my work are digital collage
6. My comfort zone of drawing is by drawing
using a pen - Fred told me
that my comfort zone of drawing is pen which is good. He told me that perhaps I
should think of turning my sketches to illustrations. Hmm hmm. Plus explore and
use different type of pens?
These are my doodles when i'm bored = 100% using a pen
7. Friends' opinions are important of producing a better illustration. - Because sometimes illustrator cannot see what other people see. The illustrator might think 'oh my drawing looks pretty and beautiful' but when it comes to audiences, they bearly get the message/point. That's why I love asking my friends if they understand my illustrations or not.
This article shows how importand is critiques for us, designers.
8. I need
to remember illustrators name - I think I need to study illustrators name and how they produce their
illustrators as I think this will help me of producing more ideas, techniques
and processes.
Recently, I have been noting down illustrators that I found their work interesting.
9. Once I know what I am going to do for final in my mind, I will skip the 'experimentation' bits - I hate this. I can't be help. Urghh I really need to be more 'experiment' type of person
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| http://z-fakharuldin1316sp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/i-experimented-with-traditional-collage.html |
This is an example of me skipping the 'experimentation' bit on a project. I only did like 3/4 experimentation then moved on to final design
10. I will be a good illustrator if I have a
subject to draw - I
found it easier to draw when Fred/Matt gave me a subject to draw. E.g. for the
narrative snail project, I did came out with lots lots lots of sketches which
made me happy. *happy dance*. However I will struggle if a given topic is too
broad.
This image above shows my sketches when I was giving a subject to draw. My subject was 'snail: how snails have been stepped on'
