ART/COM 210

Way to many Chey's (my roommate) in one picture. Yet another Photoshop assignment. To begin this assignment, I did two photoshoots with my roommate in order to get her in various positions within the same background composition. I had to do the photoshoot twice as in the first one there wasn't a lot of variety within her positions within the composition in order to meet the requirement for the assignment. So I had her pose for me a second time, and I had her all over the place. I needed to get as many interesting shots as possible. For this assignment, we learned everything we needed to know about the quick mask mode, and the blur tool and many others. All in all, this was probably the most fun I've had doing the assignment, and it was by far the quickest and easiest assignment yet.

This was my very first attempt at Photoshop, and boy was it a challenge. We had to restore moderately damaged photos, either ones that we found or ones within the class folder. I couldn't find any so I chose one from the class folder. We learned a wide variety of tools in order to complete this assignment well. We learned about the Selection tool, the Clown Stamp tool, Dodge and Burn tool, etc. This was a great intro into Photoshop. And all in all I was pretty happy with the result of my restoration. Honestly, I should have adjusted the pixels and quality of my photo in order for it to be truly as successful as it was all round.

This Propaganda assignment was a lot of work. We had to get to know propaganda history and from that knowledge we had to create our own successful poster.  We had to follow the graphical theme, of stripes, radiating text, angled text, blocks of color, red, black, white, orange, and Russian fonts. All in all, I had a lot of fun putting everything together, and for me this was a very successful assignment.

Logo's assignment which more enjoyable than the previous one. I felt like I had more to draw more ideas following. For this one we had to create 5 sketches of logos from different companies. It was a long process sketching them and perfectly them, also coming up with the titles and company name. I narrowed the 5 down to 3 and created them in Illustrator.

The First Assignment...Calligrams. Calligram is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as " a word or piece of text in which the design and layout of the letters creates a visual image related to the meaning of the words themselves." We had about two weeks to create our calligram, we had to prepare sketches, then move into Illustrator to starting creating. Each week we learned more and more tools.  Personally, Calligrams are a real pain....But a fun pain.

After the first class, I feel like this semester will be very rewarding in what I will be able to achieve when I have completed this course. I've always wanted to be able to design digitally but it seemed way too complicated to do on my own, therefore, with taking this course I'll be able to design whatever I want eventually. BY second class we designed HTMLs I hated it....