Animals Project Evaluation

I found working in Peter Clark's collage styled media to be difficult at first, to create an image that was accurate to that of the one used for my reference using only torn up pieces of newspaper/magazines. I did, however, begin to enjoy it and find it a useful change of styles once I felt that I had enough experience and began to find it easier to produce accurate pieces of work.

My Peter Clark artist research sheet did not turn out as good as I would have wanted it to be, mainly down to the placement of my pieces, leaving too many blank gaps in my work. I could have filled the gaps with annotations which seemes like a better idea now that I am able to reflect on my tutor's feedback.

The 3 animals that I decided to explore were; ring tailed lemurs, snow tiger and panthers. I felt that the tiger and panther reflected on my laziness as well as my tendency to calculate my actions prior to me performing them.


In the end, I decided on the ring tailed lemur as they don't seem to take anything too seriously, enjoy being active with friends, bursts of high energy, etc. I further explored this animal through creating my A2 oil pastel piece feautring 3 different studies of the animal from different angles.

For my final piece, I decided to create a 2D/3D face of the ring tailed lemur. I avoided creating a 3D full body model of the lemur due to my fear of the outcome deviating too much from my original plan and also because of my inexperience in the area of 3D modelling. The lemur's body shape also seemed a little too complex for me to create and perhaps fail to create in the small amount of time left to complete it. I was, however, more confident in creating an accurate depiction of the animal in the form of its face only, whilst experimenting with a less complex for of 3D modelling.


I feel as though I have improved my model making skills somewhat, given the fact that prior to this assignment, I had no experience what so ever in creating 3D models of any kind. I now have more initial ideas on how to go about creating a model of certain animals with at least some level of accuracy. I have learnt the basics through experiences in this course.

I feel as though I could have managed my time better toward the end of the project, since I was ahead of my work at the start of the project, I was too confident that the work would not have gotten ahead of me, which it did because I decided to work on work from another teacher that had a deadline close to the beginning of my current project instead of focusing on my current work.

My overall thoughts on the project are that I enjoyed the experimentation side of it especially with creating the 3D models, and that I would like to have another chance to imporve on those model making skills.