Reflection on Blogging Experience

This is my first experience in using a blog to hold pictures, posts, and commentary. When the semester began, our very first posts about each of our own personal work was the most interesting for me.  It gave a visual insight into each personality and artist's style.  Being able to express myself and show my current projects and designs allows for others to give me input. 

Blogging has been a positive experience for keeping a digital organized sketchbook.  I really enjoy the physical website that holds the photos and commentary.  The posting back and forth for critiques has a lot of potential.  I don't feel that our class or myself has taken advantage of the full possibilities.  It does take time when you're looking through people's posts and reading everything they have to say.  I feel in some cases that there are a lot of repetitive comments made about the drawings.  The main suggestion I would advise others is to keep up the posts that are supposed to be up as well as maintain personal posts and commenting on others.  I  plan to improve on my commentary for group members and posts about personal projects for the rest of the semester.  

I plan to add more personal posts about current interests, events, and projects.  I haven't had much time to add posts other than the assigned posts.  I feel that those are more important to keep track of and in order.  It would be nice to get feedback about commonalities that my fellow group members are feeling with stress, designs, and work.

I have posted a few comments to each of my group members and still need to improve on the quantity.  I think checking the blogs daily would allow for a small amount of time to be dedicated to posting and commenting. I have received posts from my group members on a few different areas. The discussions have been beneficial and though provoking.  Responding to questions through commentary is also helpful. 

One potential blog assignment could relate to exploring drawing mediums.  I feel that using charcoal pencil or graphite allows for quality variation in value and weight.  I tend to use vine charcoal and thick charcoal, as well and have problems with it become too smeared.  In the past, I've enjoyed using ink and  marker.  It would be interesting to experiment with a medium of choice and do a post of these drawings.  The variety in the class could potentially be beautiful and inspiring. 

I would currently rate my blog as a 9/10.  I feel that I have completed all of the required posts.  I feel that I add in personal things and plan to increase the amount of blogging that I do for the remaining weeks of the semester.  I think that my image quality has been working well.  I size each of the photos to be ten inches and usually use the medium setting.  Details are captured at almost the real size and viewers can critique details about the photos. 

The overall blogging experience has been positive, with the realization that it takes a lot of time to be truly involved with commenting and keeping up with posts.  I find this space that I have created to be an organized digital rendering of life drawing class. I plan to use it in my portfolio as an example that stands out from my other design work.  Along with websites that I have designed, this blog can show organization, attention to detail, and my improved drawing skill.