Study Task 1 - Why am I here? What do I want to learn?

• identify and explain 5 reasons why you chose to study on this programme.
• Identify and explain 5 things that you want to learn during your time on the programme.
• Identify and explain 5 skills that you think are your strengths.
• Identify and explain 5 things that you want to improve.
• Identify and explain 5 ways in which you will evaluate your progress

I chose to study on this programme because:
- As an internal student I knew about the reputation of Leeds College of Art and of how successful the Graphic Design course is and how that would be transferred to the Illustration course.
-  Also because of my year on the extended diploma after transferring from sixth form, I appreciated how good the college was and found I could work better in the learning environment and the curriculum at LCA. 
- I love Leeds as a city, I knew I wanted to study Illustration and thought I would have to move away, when I found out about the new course it seemed obvious this would be my first choice. 
- I want to be an Illustrator, I'm not sure what area within the subject yet, I'm hoping after three years I will have more of an idea.

Things want to learn during my degree:
- I want to fall back in love with drawing, I've found that sometimes I go for weeks without drawing because of creative blocks. I want to be able to draw every day and enjoy it.
- I would like to refine my practice, I find it difficult at the minute to make a piece of work look finished and polished.
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I think my strengths are:
- Although it's sometimes a weakness, I tend to think I'm doing worse than I actually am which makes me work harder (and possibly sends me insane).
- My need to better myself, I constantly look to contemporary illustrators and want to be at the point they're at but within my own practice.
- My pen work, I am most confident working in a 0.05 pen to create highly detailed pieces of work.

I want to improve:
- My time management
- My technical skills
-My drive for making images