Here's a piece of writing I did now that this project is all but over

I had a lot of trouble at the start of this project. I’m really not interested in drawing buildings and the three sites we were given I found either tedious to draw or just not interesting. This presented a challenge to the way I work. I started just drawing the most interesting of the sites, the train station, but even though I tried different approaches I felt like my work had no meaning or direction and I was really forcing myself to do work.  I felt like all this was having a negative effect on my project so quickly came up with a way to give the work direction. I did this by incorporating a figurative element to my work but feel that I may have sacrificed a certain amount of focus on the sites themselves by doing this and maybe I fell into my comfort zone when I could have tried to explore new techniques and options for dealing with the issues I had. Despite this I do believe the quality of my work and my attitude to the project increased when I gave it a more solid direction that I was interested in. I believe I made a good foundation of work with a clear development. 

The main issue I have with my work this project is maybe I didn’t do enough of the initial survey step and could have developed more site oriented ideas or tried more options than the figurative one I went with. I also feel I could have done more work with materials I’m not so familiar with on a wider variety of materials as well. For instance I would have liked to do some digital work which I never really do. However I never did so partly because my lack of experience in the area stopped me as I didn’t know what I could do or how. I need to develop the way I approach concepts that are completely new to me like this in the future otherwise my practice will not develop to the extent that it should. While I like the work I have done this project and especially the way I started incorporating colour it is very similar to my usual work in material and style. This isn't necessarily a problem but I do need to explore a little more.  I do like how I developed using colour in my work and using different type of line however. I am also pleased with the general concept of the project.