Indefinite's Y13 GYG - Journey to an art degree

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by IndefiniteMusic

Very small update
Springpod has added a game art virtual work experience :eek3:

so I'm going to do that and mention it in my personal statement. Still deciding whether to do it know or in October half term. I also found some pretty good art books that are relevant so i can buy and read / work through those or some might be on internet archive.

Whoaa that's awesome!! I'm in y13 rn and im also looking to do game art^^ so this is very useful, thank uuu

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Reply 21

IndefiniteMusic

I had another meeting about extra time and did another test. None of my scores were lower than 84 so that won't be going forward but they're going to report back to my teachers and ask them to support me with exam technique and stuff. I honestly wasn't expecting to get extra time anyway since i mainly struggled due to not revising properly.

We're having our sketchbooks checked week commencing 13th October (or marked for then, I'm not sure) so I'm probably going to be sorting that out quite a bit. I tried to fix a painting today but the art rooms were all full when i was free. This week is new artist research so I've gone for Ian Murphy (my previous artist was Edward Hopper)

I had a pretty nice chat with some friends today, we were talking about our after school routine when it comes to studying and it was kind of a relief to hear that others struggle, especially moving up to Y13. We also all agreed that the maths textbook sucks for practice questions (they seem to not prepare us for exam questions very well) so we're going to start using other resources instead.

Reply 22

IndefiniteMusic

Art is going okay, we're doing the next photoshoot over the long weekend (inset days this Friday and next Monday) instead of during the week, which gives me time to finish things off for marking. I'm also planning to not do editing for this photoshoot so I should stay on track after catching up hopefully.

Today my physics lesson was cancelled so me and my friends went to the pool room and played as a 3v2. I was in the 2 and we lost both games, i kind of suck at pool but it was fun. Teachers seem to be setting catch up lessons when we have to miss them, so as our teacher physics teacher was leaving for his meeting he said he'll tell us when the catch up lesson is soon. Same with the stats lesson we're missing due to the inset days. I honestly find it quite annoying since they put it in frees and because of scheduling issues art doesn't line up with others, lessons properly so i don't even have most of the same frees.

We've got UKMT on Thursday and were just told on Monday about this. I really don't want to do it, I honestly hate how we're all signed up for it without anyone asking. Generally I cannot answer any questions so it'll be a fun 90 minutes just struggling.

Reply 23

IndefiniteMusic

I survived UKMT i guess. I think i got participation still but that's to be expected honestly.

Art stuff is going well. The photoshoot turned out quite nice and the page is nearly done i just need to write a reflection. I have a lot of unfinished pages mainly needing annotations because i find them difficult to write, luckily it turns out marking wasn't this week / our teacher might have forgot because she hasn't mentioned it.

I briefly got told our mocks timetable by my friend and the maths and physics papers are always on the same day which is sad :cry:

. I don't really know if we're doing anything for art or if marking our component 1 is our mock grade.

Reply 24

IndefiniteMusic

Half term starts really soon, I'm quite excited to have a break but there's still a lot i need to do. I'm definitely going to try and be productive and not just sleep the whole time. I also want to try getting up a bit earlier, I've started suspecting that I'm tired due to too much sleep / staying in bed after my alarm and going into another sleep cycle. It's not 100% accurate but a chronotype test said I had a dolphin type which does better on slightly less sleep (on the 6-7 hour side). I also keep forgetting to take my supplements and drink water which probably isn't helping the feeling tired.

Half Term To-do list

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Revising maths and physics

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Art coursework

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Personal art / for my portfolio

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Going through any art books with free online copies, watching documentaries or longform videos to talk about on my personal statement

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Game art online course

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First draft of my personal statement

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