Evaluations

Evaluation 1 ~ Drawing of the person next to you:
In this task we were asked to draw the person sitting next to you (in my case it was Nicole). We were told to draw a continuous line drawing of their head and shoulders. 20% of the time we were allowed to look at our sheet of paper to draw them and 80% of the time we had to look at them and not the sheet of paper. I found this task a bit difficult because of having to go over lines to get to one point because we were not able to lift our pencils off the paper.
For the second half we had had to draw each other again doing the exact same thing but this time we were not allowed to look at the sheet of paper at all! I found this exercise hard because it was very tempting to look down at the drawing and see what else you had left to do.

Evaluation 2 ~ Nikki's bike:
In this task Nikki brought in her bike and we were asked to draw it, however we would draw it from the angle we were sitting on and we were given a specific amount of time to draw it, which in our case was about 5 minutes. After the time was up we were asked to stand and swap places with someone on the other side of the bike and continue drawing their drawing of the bike. Again we were given 5 minutes to complete this exercise. We were asked to draw the bike which a piece of charcoal which after the time of drawing was up we had to go outside and spray it so the charcoal would not smudge.
I found this quite easy and interesting because we were asked to draw different angles of the bike which I thought was a good idea.

Evaluation 3 ~Videos on graphic design:
For a couple of lessons Nikki put on some movies about graphic design for us to watch and take notes on. The video was on Elements of Design, Principals of Design, and Imagery in Design.
I found these videos interesting because I learnt quite a lot about the different elements used in design, the principals and imagery in design.

Evaluation 4 ~ Map Work:
In this task we were given an A2 sheet of paper and a destination. We were asked to draw a map without using arrows or words to show our destination. In the next lesson we were given instructions to follow someone else's map and they were to follow ours. The map we were given led us to the bike rack between block B and block S. We found there map quite easy to read because they chose to do a traditional map, and they had very clear images that represented a place in the school and a pathway to the destination. People found our map hard to read because it was a nontraditional map, and we used only images to lead the viewers to the destination. We didn't read the instructions properly which made it harder for the viewers to arrive at their destination. (Our destination was the next room.)
By Tash and Nicole.