Today we were continuing on the group's online campaign project, to promote our work on social media. For today's session I completed a drawing for the group pages, which was a drawing of everybody in the group wearing their chosen colours for the work we will be posting on the social media. I did really enjoy drawing it, and also made me rediscover colouring my drawings, which I feel really bring the drawings to life. I do feel that the drawing wasn't perfect, and I probably used my fine liner a bit too much, and I did notice that my fine liner was a bit too thick and inky, so I may need to get another one. It was also really good practice for my art therapy sessions I provide on my work placement on Tuesdays.
However, the first half of this morning was pretty stressful. Firstly, I thought I was designing the cover photo, and Ananda was designing the logo, but his logo was the size of a Facebook cover photo, which was really worrying me, because I didn't want to have done my drawing for the group to not use it!
I also needed copies of my drawing to hand to each member of the group, which I didn't mind doing, but this made me realise the scanners at college weren't very good, and the copies didn't print properly, and I did need copies for the meeting in the second half of the morning. Thankfully Neil was really helpful and offered to help me to print the copies by printing them off from his computer area, which I was really grateful for. I do feel that Neil and I do get on much better now compared to last year, which again I am really grateful for. However, I was clearly stressed and didn't really feel like talking and one of the other members of the group wouldn't really stop talking to me, which to be honest stressed me out even more, even though I know he meant well. I did however tell him to leave me alone, as calmly as I could.
Eventually my scans were printed, but the prints weren't very good. However, this is just to show everyone what I have done for this project so far. It was now time for the meeting, which even though I was still feeling anxious, I feel went fairly well, even though I felt I didn't really say as much as everybody else. I suppose I am quite a quiet person, but I have learned to be ok with this, as this doesn't mean I am a boring person.
The meeting today was about getting the online campaign started, which will start on Monday and run for 7 days. We also needed to agree on what work everybody was going to submit for the online campaign, and if any work anybody has done so far needs to be changed. Thankfully I was right in thinking that my drawing was going to be used as a cover photo, and everybody seemed to really like my drawing, but I think that everybody wants individual drawings of each person. This will be easy, as I can just crop the existing drawing into seven individual drawings. Also, I will need to get the work I will submit for this online campaign ready for Friday. My work isn't ready yet, but I have a clear idea of what it is I wish to submit, and it shouldn't take too long to edit to make each piece focus on my chosen colour, which unsurprisingly is blue.
Also, Neil did bring up that we should be meeting outside of college, something which we weren't aware of before, but shouldn't be a problem. So the group had to decide on a date, time and place for the next meeting. Because Sunday at 11am works best for most of us, we decided the next meeting will be then. We just needed to decide on a place. I suggested somewhere in town, because it is somewhere we all know, and we can meet at a cafe or something. We eventually decided to meet in the town square, despite Ananda suggesting to meet at the University, but I don't think the photography students go there much at all. I think meeting outside of college is a great idea, as it gives me another social option and it will be a lot more casual, and we could have breakfast or a morning coffee somewhere!
One thing that does bother me about Ananda is that he constantly interrupts and talks over people, especially me, and this is one thing I find incredibly frustrating and frankly rude. This did happen at some times during today's meeting, and this can make it hard for me to form a true friendship with him. We don't really have much in common either, and we only really talk to each other about work, so I guess we are more colleagues/acquaintances than friends. I suppose this is ok, as you can't really change people, but it can make Thursdays quite difficult.
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