PPP Evaluation

Personal and professional practice (PPP) for me hasn’t gone too great, I feel. When we were set the module at the start of the year I felt the direction and point of PPP was too vague especially for us as first years and myself personally. I felt that as a first year I needed a bit more direction on what I needed to do for PPP. When I first came to university I didn’t know how the blogging and lectures would work or what one would have had to have on their blog.

For the most part I don’t think any of my blog posts had coherency and I failed to follow up any posts with further development and progression. I started by doing a few on a some bits and pieces that id been doing, such as light night and my plans to further my drawing capabilities but I never really got round to acting upon these blog posts with more personal drawings or events other than those organised by the college (Manchester animation festival). So for the most part a large portion of the blog is posts about different animations that interested me but with each post I followed the same formula of writing a short synopsis and then going on to write opinions and how I learnt from it or could learn from it, while I know that it’s acceptable it doesn’t feel creative or open minded enough to be so fixated on that same formula which is why I would of preferred to of done more posts about my personal work, however due to the vagueness of the PPP module I have hardly any up, as I couldn’t feel confident I should have been blogging it as it could of just been a doodle. I did however enjoy blogging about the competitions I tried entering and in second year I plan on increasing the number I enter.

While I wasn’t happy about or confident in my PPP from this year over all as I didn’t have a clear plan or direction to it, now that I know what I’m doing I’m looking forward to second year. In second year I plan to lean towards the more comic book and illustration side of the industry ion the sense of drawing competitions, concept art contests as well as working towards making my own comic (hopefully). I don’t want my PPP to just be a bunch of thrown together blogs with no causal link between them all so I’m going to be continuing to blog on PPP over the summer in order to make sure I don’t fall out of practice with blogging as I develop and create the beginnings of a comic.