Evaluation

In the beginning of this project when, I was first given the brief I was very excited because, there were a lot of story's that can be created with the theme Adventure Quest. I found it a bit difficult to come up with a story because there are a lot of ideas to choose from. A lot of my class mates already had an idea of what they were going to do, but I was not sure so I decided to create a spider diagram, so that I could put all my ideas and thoughts onto paper. After I did that I could make sense of my ideas. I had decided to base my story in Greece, because I wanted to add mythical creatures to my story. I  wanted to add something different to my story to make it more unique, I decided that all my characters would have the ability to turn parts of there body into their spirit animal.
Half way through as I was designing my characters, I realised I wouldn't have enough time to design all my characters and I was going to be difficult to decided what spirit animal the Olympian gods would have because there gods and there power must be stronger than a human, I ended up deciding that only my main characters would have that ability, and it would be given to them by Hecate the goddess of magic.

I found it very difficult to find a villain for my story so I had to make up the story as a was going along. I did some research on Greek mythology and how the Olympian gods came into power, and who created them and by researching more about them I ended up finding my villain. I had a lot of characters to design because there are twelve main Olympians and twelve Titans that would have to fight each other, because the Titans would be released by the villains Nyx and Erebus. I found it difficult to draw the characters because there wasn't much of a description in Greek mythology. I ended up designing a few of the Olympian gods and a few of the Titans, because I realised with the time period I have I wont be able to design all the characters.

When I was using mixed media to colour in my designs I found it very difficult to paint, I have done painting before but I haven't done it for about 2 year so I found it very difficult to get the right colours I wanted by mixing the acrylic paint. When I was painting the realm of darkness I wanted the ground to be an orange-ish grey but it turned out dark green, so I just went with the colours I had, it turned out ok. I also found backgrounds difficult to design because I am not used to drawing back grounds, because I usually draw characters, so throughout this project I found it difficult to design backgrounds, but I think I have improved in adding colour to my drawings and in drawing itself.

When I was presenting my work in a presentation to my classmates, I was very nerves, and when my tutor asked who would go first I volunteered because I wanted to get my presentation over and done with because I was very nerves. In my feed back I was told I presented it confidently but, I thought I look nerves and I got confused and I stuttered a little. In my feed back I was also told that I needed to design more backgrounds because, I had designed more characters and less backgrounds. I was also told that I should have explained my story in order because when I was explaining it I kept going back and forth with my story. I was also told to add more colour to my drawings because I had less colour in my drawing. After I got all my my feedback I did more background work, and I added more colour to my drawings and I used more mixed media. I used wax crayon, crayons,acrylic paint, and felt tips. I also started to design a head in sculptris, but i didn't finish it so i didn't add it to my work because its not complete.

I really liked this project I found it very interesting and I really enjoyed it. If I did this project again I would change the designs of my characters a little, and I would have done more backgrounds. I would have changed my story a little as well. I would also do more mixed media work and I would test the paint and colour to see if they go together and then I would have chosen the one I like and redo it more neat and in a bigger scale.