Week 5 / Monday

Well what a day! Today I made my blog public to the rest of the group and had two assignments with the word ESSAY in them! Oh lord.......

AM
The day started well despite the traffic jam due to new but kinda old roadworks on the A30 about half a mile from the turning I take in the mornings.

So into Illustrator with Peter and I was quite pleased with my efforts to draw a fish using the freehand pen tool, I even managed to split him onto different layers and draw a bowl complete with seaweed. I really must get some pictures up loaded of these masterpieces! My inspiration came from some great drawing tutorials via you tube. Well worth trying some of them out. I confess to not be artistic and struggle with stick figures, so to now have drawn a cartoon fish I am progressing......LOL!

PM
So heading in to our only lecture of the week I am wondering what we have in store, and today was focusing on our PDP, something which I find difficult to use in my present work situation. I envisioned me still continuing to be self employed after hopefully passing the course, so anything I do will be related to working for myself. However a development plan is just that so I can look at it as to how I am going to promote myself to others so have just talked myself into it being relevant, as getting clients is a job in itself!

However I am glad that I started the journal via this blog as it was mentioned to start one. So I decided to speak up and say about mine and then show the rest of the class. Not sure yet if that is a good or bad thing, the thing with cyberspace you forget that it is out there for everyone and anybody to read what you write be it on a blog or public forum. Often you get so engrossed n what you write or reply that you forget that you are never addressing a person privately (in most occasions) Maybe I should put some sort of disclaimer on here ha Ha.

Anyway we then went on to talk about manifestos and what they are about, bit like a mission statement (I think). We have formed splinter groups to come up with a presentation on a person manifesto of our choosing and incorporating a view point to the presentation from our perspective/element so we have a representative of each subject graphic designer, animator and multimedia design in our group. we have chosen A very popular designer for our subject, mainly as there should hopefully be a mass of information about him as he apparently has over 3000 product design out there.

Oh and we also learnt about plagiarism and how to avoid it! I have to say that the essay part is one of my weakness, mainly as I never see the point of them, so far I have avoided them in my lifetime, but then I have now put myself VOLENARILY into a education system, so I have to deal with it! Of course the last essay I did was way back at school and did not involve any kind of research, just a story that I made up, not at all close to the kind of essay for this course! Thank god for spell check and word counts!

Anyhow should any fellow classmates decide to follow my blog welcome and would love feedback via comments as I have the power to delete those I don't like LOL!