During the course over the past couple of weeks, I have put time into researching different aspects of game design, different artists that I can use as inspiration and going to the barbican has broaden my sense of understanding for design and creation it has taught me to be more aware of the things around me and how little I take them for granted, I have grown as an artist in the past couple of weeks, usually I would never do a blog but there is always a first time for everything and I enjoyed most of it.

During my research process I would use google scholar to reed different books done by people in the games industry and by artist and how they overcome different obstacles that I have spoken about in my blog posts. One research bit I found the most interesting was the emotional and behavioural modelling and why that is important to have in the game, I also researched about the technical aspects of game design and the creative part, most developers spend many years researching before they start creating the game and how important that research is.

I have also learned that if you want to find out something it is not always on the internet sometimes the answer might be outside, it might be with another person or sometimes in a book, and I have taken that mindset when doing my blogs and doing my work in university, because often when you think like you can come up with very creative ideas that could become something better.

Overall, I have learned many things throughout my weeks being at university, I have learned to overcome many obstacles and make my work better so for next time I will not have made the same mistakes as I have done before in the past. I wanted to ensure that my work was up to a good standard, so I spoke with a couple of my classmates and roommates on how I can make my work better and how to ensure that I keep that consistent flow throughout all my work. So, I want to take these principles and apply them into my work so that I can become a better artist and designer, I have done things that I would not usually do, for example do observational drawings, read books and research artists so that I have a better understanding on the work that I have done. So overall, I would say that in week 1 and to the last weeks I have changed for the better becoming more pro-active and making sure my work is up to a good standard and doing these blogs have ensured me to make sure that I keep on doing what I am doing now so that it helps me in the future to overcome any obstacle or work that I will have.