D. REviewing, refining, & Reflecting

D. Reviewing, refining, and reflecting criteria can stand alone as individual screens where you complete an in-depth reflection of a singular piece. However, this should also happen throughout. Every screen that you complete should have some sort of reflective element explaining what you are taking from this experience to help your future works. 

Reviewing: Looking over work and making decisions about what can improve, taking a second look, taking a closer look, being critical of work.

Refining: Removing unwanted elements, improvement of an idea, making small changes to improve in some way.

Reflecting: Speaking to the outcome of a work, the successes and challenges, the learning outcomes, evaluating goals, takeaways for future works.

The IB wants to see you have had a meaningful learning experience and that you have acquired learning and grown and developed through your artistic process. Show your failures, your restarts, and be honest about what you don't like. 

It is also not enough to just include a reflection of your project-- as the rubric calls for review, refine, and reflect. So in order to satisfy this requirement, you should look at your earlier works and see how you can re-think and/or refine some of your ideas to make a stronger work.  Include in at least one screen discussing how you have refined an idea: discussing what wasn't successful with the original work/idea/concept, what new ideas you have learned and what will make the project more successful, some sketches of the refined idea, and show process/examples of failed attempts and or process refinements. 

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At the highest level on the rubric:

"The work demonstrates a highly effective and consistent process of reviewing and refining ideas, skills, processes and techniques. The work presents a meaningful and assured reflection upon the acquisition of skills and analysis of the student’s development as an artist. "

Here are some additional guiding reflection questions to help you with writing points to meet criteria D throughout your PP. 

• What would you change if you could start again?

• What should I do next in my art? What's my plan going forward for new works?

• What are my thoughts on how my artwork turned out? What needs improvement? What parts of my artwork am I really happy with?

• Do I see any patterns in my work habits? How do my work habits affect my work overall?

• Where could I use these art techniques and processes again? Have I used them previously?

• What was significant or important in my artwork? Did I complete my goals for this project?

• How did I create the work? What are the steps I took to complete this?

• What did you learn in creating this artwork or doing this activity?

• Is the final piece what you imagined? How so?

• How will this piece influence your future artworks?