Monday 26th February 2024.
For today’s tutorial I have showed two production iterations + all 21 guided meditations.
Guided Drawing Meditations Pad experiments:
1 x Full colour with sheets printed in violet, indigo, turquoise, green, yellow, orange and red
1 x Black & white version
☞ Tutor Feedback :
• Ai narration doesn’t bother but ask your audience. You can use it until you get the meditation narration polished and then narrate yourself.
• If you want audience to add their dates, you can add a space such __ / __ / __ for them to write the date on it.
• There’s an issue with the visual hierarchy of the pad. Try making QR smaller, make grid larger and add a cut line for people to tear off outcome drawing.
• Try making some more iterations with coloured paper, coloured lines and variety of cover experiments.
★ FOCUS GROUP :
After the tutorial I printed all 21 sheets on regular paper for tests and asked all classmates who wanted to participate to try the meditations to gather more feedback.
10 students participated, most / all of them don’t draw nor they meditate — their feedback is listed below:
General Feedback:
• The activity is very relaxing.
• Some of the prompts resembled them a colouring book.
• Try get feedback on this activity from people who are not into arts or graphic design.
• Variety of grids more fluid and organic, less rigid.
• 3D grids are liked because it let’s imagination flow.
Audio track feedback:
• Slower, leaving a larger gap to breath at the start.
• Give a notice when reaching 5min and have a longer track for those who wish to continue.
• Most students felt 5min was too short but at the same time very approachable and less intimidating than longer time. Ideally, give an option to extend the activity over 5min.
• Ai narration doesn’t bother – it’s ok.