I have come to the end of my
HND Year One Studies feeling really please with my self and my level of
progress.
Make up Artistry has now
become a full time part of my life and I have become constantly proactive
through my day-to-day life over the subject. I have realised I have a passion
for more then just ordinary make up but now a new scale of artistry including
body painting, theatrical and even hair which I had the least knowledge of
before starting.
I have achieved and changed
a lot during year one HND studies for one thing I feel I have developed a new
found confidence in my work and have learnt to be able to push my self to a
creative level that I would not have stepped on before. This year of studying
has helped me to become more daring with my work and encouraged me to be far
more brave with what I am producing, I noticed this change as we entered into
the second term particularly in my fashion lessons I felt a lot more eager to
be creative and a lot more accepting of my mistakes. I feel now that I also
find it a lot easier to identify my mistakes when I am working and can make
more corrections on my own. This is due to a new level of understanding within
make up artistry and hair styling. Before I would not always understand where
or why something was not quite right with my work.
Another achievement is my newfound
respect for time management. I was not aware of the level time that would be
needed outside of college hours and this meant learning to manage my time
successfully balancing college hours and work hours. Sometimes having to turn
down work, social time in order to do the best possible with my HND. What was
particularly hard was managing the workload from college against my work schedule,
this year I now don’t commit to anything before checking my calendar, which has
helped me to manage my working life with my HND college hours and homeworking
hours. This is something I realised as we entered the second term enabling my
time management to become a lot more organised and professional.
I have always loved working
in a team environment and I have found this relatively easy to do this year
with my class. I realised early on that I can not only learn from my teachers
but also many of my students as we are all better in some things then others
and have different level of experiences. This is something that has been
valuable to me. I enjoy working with people and feel I have improved my people
skills since starting my HND, I have seen proof of this with my face painting
work as I feel a more confident people person and a more professional artist.
My independent learning this
year has been very strong, I have learnt to enjoy the curriculum and I feel
this helps with being able to achieve quality independent learning, in
particular my blog, which I have really found a pleasure to write. My blog has
even helped me to achieve my current freelance position at Charlotte Tilbury,
managers there found my blog very impressive, it helped to show a level of
enthusiasm for make up.
For next year I would like
to improve the quality of my work, I feel I can sometimes tend to over think
things when designing or making next year I want to improve on having a clearer
structure on paper or in my head before committing to a project, being a
perfectionist this can cause stress during the completion of a number of my
projects because I look at alternatives to my ideas often.
To conclude overall I feel I
have made extremely strong progress as a make up artist and have a much wider understanding
with the skills I have learnt this year. I have a new found appreciation for
time management and workload management, and now feel eager to learn more about
make up artistry. Next year I would like to improve on my creativity levels and my planning and preparation to produce the best possible final make up looks and designing. I think this will help me to be more confident in what I produce as an artist. I also want to be even more proactive in my spare time with make up
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