Reflection

Reflect on your learning process in project one. What have you learned so far, what helped and motivated you to learn?

When I first started creative coding I was very confused and lost. It was all so complicated and I felt like I was going no where and had no idea where to even begin. Other people in my class seemed to be steaming ahead and I felt within the first two weeks I had come up against a brick wall. I knew that I could concor this wall, it was just a matter of how long it would take and much effort I had to put in. I am a hard worker and therefore always strive towards getting things right but I have a tendacy not to ask questions. throughout school I never asked questions and have come to regret this, but have learnt that asking for help isn't a bad thing. From learning this I started to ask more questions even if they may of sounded foolish. By asking Ben, my tutor, I learned a lot and he gave me books and websites to investigate. By doing so, I was able to gain the key techniques that allow you to create designs on pattern maker.
I realised that you have to do a lot of your own work and what you learn in class is what you need to go home and practice untill it is stuck in your mind. Apart from my tutor motivating me, I found some exterior motivation in my ressearch into what my designs were actually about. e.g. I looked up the meaning of colurs and different types of circle patterns. I used these as artist models, and was able to stem my inspiration from them. Also once I had drafted my sketches and had decided on a final design, so I conducted a small survey to see what other views and perseptions I could gather. By getting their positive feedback, this gave me the confidence to follow through with my creation. I also got some constructive critisim, which allowed me to make slight allterations and test out other ideas in which some people expressed.
My design process was very slow. From school I learnt that it is essential to go through a process, no matter what it is. I did multiple sketches with differnt types of colours, weight lines etc. Then tryed them out on pattern maker. By having these variations so that I could physically see them really helped me to develope my over all design.
In the end I got there. I am happy with my design, the use of colour and circles is what I invisioned and I am very suprised that I could actually create something on pattern maker that I initially sketched. I made my 4 wallpapers coalate as one. Therefore when placed together they make one pattern. The first image starts off really intense with a lot of circles and more colour then carrys through to the forth image, where there are less circles and more darker colours.