First, I was just drawing some random view of a landscape (such as grass, mountain, path, etc) and characters, with some line drawings which I know, and kept practising for the real drawing. However, I realised that I could draw properly afterwards on a different piece of paper. I felt confident, but also including teacher’s help, I was able to accomplish drawing successfully so I think I made progress.

I started from background (sky), Middle (view from the mountain), and finally foreground (grass and path) plus people with another small piece of paper. For the sky, I traced clouds with some random loose lines. For the middle I used many sorts of line techniques such as stippling, hatching, and little bit of contour hatching. For the foreground, I used stippling, and grass. I also included some different tone on each mountain (dark and light).

There were some improvements I needed. Since I am pretty clumsy with cutting huge paper and matching for middle and foreground, and also making the material (I don’t know what its called) the stuff which I stick it onto the picture and show it as 3D, so I think I just need to get used to it.

For researching, I could have had looked closely and concentrate on line techniques. I was sort of scamping with researching, because it seemed a little troublesome to look for the specific lines and patterns, so most of my drawing included similar patterns, so next time I would investigate some more and try varieties of patterns and line drawing.

Overall I am satisfied with my result. I think I improved with drawing, such as realistic grass and mountain. My drawing was vivid and I want to keep up my work on next unit.

This year, 2011 field studies was fun and sometimes challenging. The most memorable activity was hiking that I even wrote about it on Japanese essay about the field studies.

Anyways, for this unit I suffered a little with how can I write the journal well and get a good feedback from the teacher. I knew what to write and how I felt from that experience, however it was pretty hard to express with the words.

The strength of my journal was the design for each day’s journal such as changing a letter fonts and make the page colourful, so that the reader won’t be bored while reading it. Another strength was that my “over all reflection” which I wrote in day 5, I wrote how I felt during this year’s field studies and what was the most exciting and great experience for me so well.

The weakness was that some of the page was messy and the drawing looked so chaos that people might not get what I drew. So, I thought I need to improve my drawing skills and especially learning how to draw an object three dimontional.