Visual Communication Final Evaluation

Over the course of this module I've developed a lot of skills that I will continue to use such as learning how to use Illustrator though it might have been one of the most thoroughly stressful weeks of my life I feel like it's something that was worth all the time spent working out how to use it and I was really happy with my final products. I've also improved my photoshop skills a lot in relation to scanning work in and developing it into finished pieces which I did in the final brief and intend to use in my cop brief now I know how to use it properly, one thing I really liked about my work in the final brief was the use of monotone colour this is definitely something I want to carry on with and experiment with, specifically editing the colour of the line work in photoshop and adding colour that way I think it could work really well with work done with a brush pen. I'm really happy with the way I've used colour in these brief I feel like it's really started to turn a corner compared to before where it was something i used to really struggle with, I think my best use of colour was in the second brief on the post cards where I set the colour palette before and used it to reflect the tone and atmosphere of the city at the time.

One of the main weaknesses with my work was not being able to actually draw anything for the first brief, i found this very restricting and because my work has such a close relationship with line it felt very difficult to try and move away from this and use a completely different media. I also found working in a group slightly restrictive I only think this is because half of my group didn't turn up for the entire project so me and Rosie ended up working in a pair which worked well but it was irritating to only be working with half a group whilst trying to organise when everyone could meet and people just wouldn't reply.

Overall I'm really proud of the work I've produced for this module and I think it's really forced me to think outside the box in regards to my responses to the briefs and force myself to try new ways of working as before the start of this brief I think I was starting to rely solely on just working digitally where as with this module I've used digital but not for everything, I've mostly used it to work from pre existing work or use it in a new way.