Tuesday 29 April 2014

Final crit

Well, that was an intense day - thank god for Sid's daughter's cookies! Extreme tiredness made things much worse than they needed to be. It was actually a very helpful process, but just felt like too much whilst shaking with sleepiness and sugar.


Here's my wall, rocking the minimalist look. Was embarrassed to have so few, but it's done now. Bemused to discover my patented penguin-flap when speaking is back - thought I'd got rid of that after Marian pointed it out in Historic Garden Conservation but seem to be doing it again without even realising! Presentation brain-freeze still there too, but this did not come as a surprise...
The sheets themselves actually looked better at A1 than on my screen, which is unusual and a bit of a relief. Not massively pleased with them, but you can always do more. Many many things to finish (well, start...). YIKES!

Was great seeing everyone else's projects - they all look surprisingly different and I got something useful from looking at all of them I think. It's really interesting seeing a whole year's work together in one display and how things have moved on from the beginning. Models and bright colours seem to be the way forward. Must get the cardboard and industrial glue out...

Sunday 27 April 2014

Cheer up love, it might never happen

1:50 plan
My 1:50 - clearly unfinished, like everything else. Very disappointed with it - the rendering is horrific and the design is obscured by it. It's taken an unfeasibly long time to make this awful mish-mash of failed experiments and it's just making me sad. Dread to think what it's going to look like printed at A1! Really wish I'd done it by hand - that would have brought its own problems of course, but it would have been quicker at least and I'd have more to put on the wall.

I started the 1:200 first, using a much simpler 'style'. Surely the second one should be an improvement?! I've been trying hard to stay positive, but lack of sleep and stupid dysfunctional brain don't seem to want this. 

1:200 plan
I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone elses lovely walls-full, but can't help being thoroughly ashamed of how little I've got to show for all the hours I've put in. Boo hoo. Tomorrow is another day and all that.

Tuesday 22 April 2014

The five stages of final crit work

Well, I've worked through denial, sadness, zombified fear and throwing money at my problems (hello new A3 printer!), and have finally accepted that I was being unrealistic about how far I could catch up. Putting the plan into AutoCAD nearly killed me, although I've now learned a few new tricks - polar array anyone? Part of the problem was skipping bits of the 1:200 to get this far (which I needed to do) - but it seems you can't draw nice accurate plans when you don't really know what half the wiggly pen lines represent! So, decisions + AutoCAD = slow progress. Very sad I won't have a better display on the day. It's a frustrating situation.

But...some fun now! Time to play with some sponge painting before planting plan madness takes over...