Annotation means writing key information alongside your work. It can help to record your thoughts, keep your development on track and let others know what you have done and why.
Do add labels which help explain your creative process, eg 鈥業nitial Ideas鈥, 鈥楾humbnail Compositional Studies鈥, 鈥楨xploring Negative Space.鈥
Do add details on techniques you might forget later, eg the stages you went through to achieve a particular print-making or model-making technique.
Do record your thoughts on the success of the work 鈥 what worked and what didn鈥檛.
Do reflect on the work of artists and designers you are influenced by and how this helped inform your ideas.
Do write down ideas about what you would like to try next, or if there is anything you could change to improve an idea or technique.
What not to do
Don't write very lengthy comments. At this stage, the purpose of annotation is to allow you to record your thoughts quickly so you can explore them later.
Don't annotate in a way that distracts attention from the work, eg by writing over an area of a drawing in large text.
Don't use annotations to label obvious things, eg 鈥榦il pastel drawing of a bottle.鈥