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What to do

Do add labels which help explain your creative process, eg ‘Initial Ideas’, ‘Thumbnail Compositional Studies’, ‘Exploring Negative Space.’

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 – what worked and what didn’t.

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 ‘oil pastel drawing of a bottle.’