First post and self evaluation

I was given the task of setting up a new blog as part of my Higher Education Illustration & Animation course. I previously Created a blog for my last course, Animation, Gaming and VFX, which can be found here: http://lordmacnton.blogspot.co.uk/ 
I have been tasked with using this new blog to track my own personal development over the course and for my first post I was told to create a self evaluation of where my skills are at now.

Where my strengths are:

  • I have a pretty good understanding of traditional art from previous courses like Graphics and doing art in school. 
  • I have picked up a decent amount of digital skills from my last course. I feel confident in both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
  • I'm good at coming up with concepts for pieces of work. I tend to be able to come up with a good amount of concepts around a given theme

What are my weaknesses and what do I need to work on:

  • I tend to prefer drawing to animating as I tend to find animating a lot of busy work. I need to work on workflow more to get more comfortable with it.
  • I find I can work pretty slow compared to some of my peers though I've been good about handing in on time
  • I'm bad at recording my work as I do it which can effect my development. I'm going to work harder to improve this. 

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