Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

- hardworking 

- meeting deadlines 

- teamwork 

- happy to take on feedback 

- passionate about my work

Weaknesses

- struggle to evaluate own work 

- organisation

- taking time on each stage of development (tend to get carried away)

- lack of confidence

I tend to get carried away with projects, I get an idea a start working. Could benefit from setting and sticking to a more organised plan to fully explore all avenues before committing to an idea. I need to come up with a more structured way of working that forces me to take more time for the research and development stages of a brief. I have struggled with this over all three years of the course and feel I have improved however I think my work would benefit from more organisation. This links to my organisational kills, again I think this has improved throughout course but could be helped by applying more organisational tools. I have a small work space at home that tends to get cluttered and keeping it organised with work laid out and a more a detailed calendar/plan of action would benefit my work. Having a board or wall dedicated to my current projects to attach images and research to would help me to keep an overview of the project and the direction it is moving in instead of becoming distracted and losing sight of the end goal. 

I struggle to evaluate my own work, especially when I have been working on the same problem for a long time. I lose perspective and start to dislike illustrations that I was originally happy with. I try to get feedback from peers and tutors as often as possible that helps me to reset back to what the aim of the project is and where it could be improved. I tend to get too focussed on individual illustrations and lose sight of crucial details that once pointed out to me seem blatantly obvious. I work everyday, not always all day but I never have a day off. I think this could be part of the problem and comes down to organising my time better. I think it is important to have days to step away from work and clear your mind. When I look back at previous projects I notice things that could easily be improved but also strengths in the work that I hadn’t noticed before. This comes back to time management and organisation, I need to allow space in my schedule for these breaks that still allow me to meet deadlines. Having these breaks doesn’t necessarily mean doing nothing or having the day off, the time could be used to work on social media/online presence updates and networking.