Improving my performance....

As I target I need to improve the appearance of my sketcbook. Not for the fact that its not tidy for the fact that it 's too tidy! I need it to make it look jampacked full of different paperstocks and textures, it gets that thick that it's almost falling apart! My action plan is by the next module I am going to use a bought sketchbook but I am really going to personlise it and put my mark on it and have less precious overall look over it! I want it to look worn out because it's been opened and closed so many times.

Here are some good examples that I would like to aspire to....

Another improvement I need to make as a designer is to become much more confident using Adobe editing software such as illustrator, photoshop and InDesign. This will only come with practice and will improve through the duration of the course. The action plan is to learn the shortcuts (especially on a MAC, seen as I am a PC user) and just to get to a MAC and really get used to using the programs by experimenting with the tools it provides. I know this would have been my downfall seen as I am analogue based. However, the digital side will develop as progress from last year, I am much more comfortable using photoshop and I can get the effects that I am visualising in my mind. It's just illustrator that I really need to work on! As an action plan, I have downloaded the free trials so I have the chance to use the programs on my PC but I must go into uni or even the library more seen as they are available for much longer. Also, I have been following peoples blogs and youtube videos on texhniques of using Adobe Creative Suite, these have been a definate help as I never realised that there was such a massive resource of step-to-step guides for such softwares.

Another target that I need to improve massively is the organisation of my time, it's not the fact that I don't work is that I need to make it more structured as I like to work in the evenings till early hours of the morning, which isn't always the best idea as I am having a lack of sleep. There are other mornings where I wake up and start work straight away and the next time I look at the clock it's 6 o'clock in the evening, nothing else done other than work. (Which is a good thing I suppose but bad as I have done nothing else). So a high priority action plan would be needed! I HAVE to make decisions QUICKER in what I want to do in my final designs. It's not that I leave everything to the last minute but if my time was more structured I feel that I wouldn't stress as much as I do in the last fortnight of a project. Although I learnt from my mistakes my first year I need to be more organised and structured. So gonna make a timetable to stick to....