The thing in pilot I am most proud of the way my art has evolved. This year I've moved to making making much more finished looking drawings, as well as putting a conscious effort into figuring out what I do and don't like about my art style and turning it into something I can feel good about. I think pilot definitely helped me improve with a number of things including self reflection, organization and time management. Something I want to bring with me from pilot is self reflection, both on my art and my behavior, because I think self reflection in narratives, exhibitions and journals occasionally has been a big reason I've gotten better with other skills. I also want to keep building on the way I've gotten better at self imposed schedules and structure. I think pilot has overall had a big impact on my life and it was part of the reason I felt so motivated to apply to art school and actually got my portfolio together and my applications in on time even though it was stressful and daunting.
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March 22nd-26th I practiced drawing animals and wrote about artwork I liked. I tried to do a more finished illustration but all week it felt like nothing was working out and I kept getting frustrated and abandoning my ideas so I didn't end up completing anything during the week. I did finish some drawings over the weekend though. I started my slideshow for my exhibition last week, obviously I'll need to add to it quite a bit as I continue with my pilot work, since my exhibition isn't for another two weeks. I definitely want to be more prepared this time, and I'm thinking about making notecards for myself.
My goals this week were to make one digital drawing, to have drawn five pages of clothing practice and to analyze another artists artwork. I only ended up with three pages of clothing drawings but I did meet my two other goals. I had sort of a hard week in terms of motivation, so I'm glad that I was able to meet most of my goals. I will practice drawing more clothing this next week to make up for the two pages I didn't do this week. I think I did a good job with my intentions this week, because I was pretty organized, I set reminders on my ipad for some of my classes and meetings and it really helped. I also think I did a good job of managing my stress this week, even though I felt unmotivated I still tried work on school, however if I didn't end up getting much done I didn't get angry at myself or anything.
My goals for this week were to make one digital drawing, fill five pages with figure drawing practices and analyze one piece of art. I did end up completing all my goals. Usually my three week goals are just to make three new digital drawings, but at my presentation this week two people suggested that I have more specific goals, and that I should make goals to look at other people's art, so I tried to follow that advice when I was making goals for the next few weeks. The journal prompt this week was to talk about what we felt like we were consistently showing up for in our pilot work and what we felt we needed to show up for more. I think I make art consistently, but I have a difficult time showing up for all other parts of pilot like journal entries, meetings, goal settings and presentations. One of my main intentions is to get better with organization, I really want to improve with these parts of pilot and I think I've made a good start this week by making goals and following through on them and then writing this journal entry (haha). I don't think I have a set meeting time with Amy, because I almost always fail to go to meetings, but I would like to set up a time and actually go to my meetings. This week after writing an analysis of a drawing I liked I had the idea to try and imitate an aspect of the drawing I was analyzing each week, for example this week the drawing I looked at had a crowd in the background and the people in the crowd were drawn as sort of abstract shapes and I decided to try that in one of my drawings. This week I worked on organizing my portfolio. I'm pretty much done, with the exception of one drawing I need to upload. Over break I just need to figure out how to actually submit my portfolio and applications. I have all the pieces together, I just need to submit them.
This week I picked out some drawings to put into my portfolio. Amy and I looked at them together yesterday. She gave me advice to help me polish some of them. I started my college essay last night, which I've been putting off because it seemed like such a big deal... but it turns out that writing so many personal narratives in school has paid off because it's actually not so bad. I still need to upload timelapses and photos of traditional art to my google drive.
It's been a pretty uneventful month. We've been doing virtual school for most of it. I've been making art and I've finished two drawings from observation, a self portrait and a drawing of Amy's unicorn mask. I've also been doing digital art and experimenting with my style. i've been really bad about responding to emails, i still have to reply to an email from my mentor which, come to think of it, i should do when i'm done writing this. obviously haven't been great about journal entries either... i mean to be fair if i wrote them every week they'd get pretty redundant. still i should improve on that. in the next week i want to put together pieces for my portfolio. maybe i could make a folder in google drive or something to help organize.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on both digital and traditional drawings. I've been sketching from observation, and am going to start working on a larger, more time consuming observational drawing for my portfolio. Amy helped me to find a mentor and while there were a few issues with zoom for our first meeting, I felt really good about how it went. The biggest things I've been struggling with are journal entries (obviously, since this is the first one I've written in a month!) and documentation. I keep forgetting to to send my drawings from my Ipad to my chromebook so I can add them to my documentation folder. I will be doing that tonight, since we are showing our work during seminar tomorrow.
The start of this year has had some ups and downs for me, for the most part I have been keeping up with my pilot work, I have been drawing as much as can and I finished the first part of my learning plan, I'm hoping I can finish the second part by the end of the week. Amy was also talking to me about national portfolio day, which I think will be really helpful. But unfortunately I'm having a really hard time finding time to do art, especially during in person weeks. I know I need to do the work for my traditional classes so I can graduate, so I should prioritize that work, but that means I have to spend much less time on art which is what I actually want to go to school for and have a career in. I'm hoping I'll be able to work on time management so I can draw more.
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