Unit 4 Mock Evaluation

Mock Evaluation

For the mock I don't think that I was prepared as a would have liked to have been because I had two images out of the five that I was not happy with and this was down to the lack of preparation I did. I had ideas for my mock but I wasn't excited about the ideas so I changed the idea slightly close to the mock date and did as much prep works as I could. I do believe that some more experimenting would have helped me in the mock because I did take a risk by choosing that idea so close to the mock but I think it worked out for the best.

The time that we was allowed for my mock was six hours and I planned on doing five images, so I had about an hour to do each one with an hour spare to do any changes or redo any that I wasn't happy with. This arrangement worked well for me because it roughly took about forty five minutes to complete one and this gave me time to redo two of the images that I thought I could have painted better.

The arrangement of the five images was: close up, medium close up, whole face, close up and than a medium close up, I think the best one with the image of the whole face because I think it stands out the most and compositionally it is better, in my opinion. I think the colours worked well because they were bright and contrasts to the black and the other colours.

If I could go back and do the mock again I think I would change the composition of the single eye because I think it sites well as the other sit together, I think I would have made the eye smaller and added in the eyebrow to make it more like the middle image. Also the dripping is neat and I think the images could have benefited to having messier more real looking drips but other than that I am happy with the outcome of the mock.

I think the one thing that I was worried about was that it looks to simple. When doing them I didn't think it was to difficult to do but I'm happy I did them because I think it shows some of my best work. When doing the final exam I want to keep to this idea but develop it further to create something more complex and more interesting. I really do like the bold black and the dripping colours so I would like to keep this idea going. Also when thinking of the final exam I think that watercolour is the median that I work best in and also A3 is the biggest size I will paint in because I tend to work best on a smaller scale.