The End Has Come

I've always been the kind of person who gets things done as nice and as fast as I can. I don't like to sit around in class and do other things when I am given time to do something else. I feel like this has helped me in the class because I am able to get my work done on time and normally have a few minutes or days to look at my work and either find ways to improve it or see where I messed up. This also allows me time to ask questions and perfect the final outcome. Not only have I learned out to use a Mac without throwing it out the window, but I have also learned how to use the programs it comes with. Because I use Macs at school and another computer at home I now feel equally comfortable using either computers. I think this will help me in the long run because I don't know what kind of computer I will use at my job six years from now or what programs I will be using. Either way if I use a Mac or windows I know how to handle both, and I know now that there are tutorials online on how to use almost every computer program under the sun. Also during this class I have taken advantage of the freedom and have used my own personal pictures to edit in photoshop and iPhoto this helped me to create studio pieces for my IB art class. I really enjoyed working in iPhoto, it was simple, very hands on, and I could control everything. I really didn't enjoy working with illustrator it was to complex and to difficult and I got confused often. It was like there were to many possibilities and I couldn't chose. 


This is my last day in this class, I have to switch out in order to be able to fit in another class. I have surprisingly enjoyed the work I have done in this class. I won't miss the kids screaming at each other even though they are two feet away from each other. 


-Until Another Teacher Makes Me Blog...

Final

Done done done

And I Began Thinking Again

Even though I wasn't at school yesterday I was still thinking about my final in this class. Because I am combining two class finals as one I am considering two separate criteria. For my art class we are only allowed to have 300 words. I didnt think that when I added my artists statement into my pages document and I might want to add some more statements or more thoughts. Before we present our final in class I am going to add a few more statements so that it looks more like a magazine article them two finals akwardly crammed together.

-Until Final Day!

The Finish Line is Near

The Actual Red Ribbon

(I hope you get the joke)


I know I still have roughly two class periods to complete my final, but I think I'm done. Today I finished editing my artist statement put it into my pages document, added boarders to my pictures and just added and corrected little details like the fronts color. I'm one of those people who if they think about something for to long they start to second guess themselves, change everything, and half the time make it worse. So I've stopped thinking, it's a lot harder then it sounds. 
While working on my artist statement I sent several copies to my art teacher and to my dad. I then took their critics and opinions formed my own and edited the statement. The statement was difficult to do because I really enjoy my art and have lots to say about it but I could only have 300 words in the entire statement. I could have done 300 a paragraph. But I got it done and with our three brains working together I think I have a great and strong artist statement. I am so glad I was able to fit it into this class, because I really enjoy this class and it would have sucked if my last project I had to write about something I didn't care so much about.


It is Thursday! That means its the weekend!


-Until The Other Side of the Weekend!

color and feeling

Today I was able to get my artist's statement finished!

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” - Pablo Picasso. Statements like this are what cause me to be so interested in the meanings behind colors. My goal is to master color symbolism and find ways to incorporate that into every piece I do. I want to know what someones reaction will be to a piece before they’ve ever see it. I want to know the feelings the viewer will think or feel before the piece is ever complete. While doing this I want studio pieces that are organized and controlled while also seeming fun and playful. 

My theme is color and feelings. People are drawn to color. I want to attract them with fun and bright colors but keep them there, looking at my work because of the depth each piece has. When I first start on a piece I select the colors first, then what kind of texture I will include, and finally once everything is dry and finished I lay them all out next to each other and play with how they should be arranged. Which colors would look best together, keeping in mind to keep complementary colors away from each other. 

My pieces have grown from what use to be cluttered and unorganized to polished and complete. I take what is that main attention grabber in one piece and try to make it the subtle detail of another. They are a collection because of similar colors and textures but there are mini-collections because of how colors and textures are represented. I am attempting to make people stop and look at a square of color only to find out that not only is it a square of color but it is a detailed, colorful, organized piece of feelings.

While I was working on it I began to worry that my magazine layout looked to childish or immature. Mr. Double- U gave me an idea to put a border on all my pictures, so I did that and that caused me to change my background from a lavender to my favorite brown with I think makes it look much nicer... It kinda also makes it look like a safari!

-Until the Next Excursion!

I haven't posted my work on the blog because it has my name on it and I still haven't figured out if I can post that...

And Today Is Friday!

Alright so today I worked on my final projected. I have every picture in their final place rotated and enlarged to perfection. My backgrounds are colored although I am worried that my does not look as professional and Mr. Double- U might me expecting, so I'l have to work on that. The only reason I didn't put a link to what I've done today is because it has my name in it and I'm pretty sure I'm not suppose to put anything with my name in it. So I also need to figure out if I need to fix my pages without my name in it and what not. All in all good day, I think all I'm missing is my actual writing.
It is Friday that means its the weekend!


-Until Then!

SO....

So I started the first illustrator tutorial and when I got to step 4 it asked me to do something with gradient I worked on that and tried to do it. But for some reason it wouldn't let me do what the tutorial said I would be able to. So I attempted the first tutorial and was not successful.

I then tried Tutorial #2 and I got THIS. I did not add all the graphics like the tutorial suggested doing. While I'm sure it would have made the outcome just wonderful I thought, since this will be one of the only days we work on illustrator I'm just going to try and have a basic idea of how to do these things rather then work my butt off to make one look perfect and then have no idea how to do any of the other ones. So I have a very nice not connected pie chart and attempts at other things rather then just a pie chart with a hand and eyes balls sticking out of it.

The Last thing I was able to do today was tutorial three. I was able to create the vase part with no problem but I couldn't find the ellipse tool. So I decided I would use another symbol but whenever I selected another symbol it would delete the vase I created. I'm not sure why it did any of that. For now though I have a flawless VASE!!




- Until the next assignment!

Pixel v. Vector

Pixel, short for Picture Element, is a single point in a graphic image. Graphics monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into thousands of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. The pixels are so close together they appear connected.

Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves and shapes to represent images in computer graphics.

Food Charts

11/16 Tuesday
11/17 Wednesday
11/18 Thursday
11/19 Friday
11/20 Saturday
11/21 Sunday
Along with me as food I finished these and feel they all look pretty nice and everything. I wasn't able to use all the food I ate because I couldn't find pictures of some and others the pictures I could find were abstract ones or had weird angles and things like that, that would make them weird to put in the picture.




- Until After Turkey Day!!

Food- ME

Thats me as beans, marshmallows, pasta, grapes, coffee and a S'more. I enjoyed this and worked on this all period today. Finished it with 9 minutes left in class.


-Until the Next doc.

Cartoon of Me!

Here finally is the cartoon of me, I think it looks quite distorted! I was able to create it in a small amount of time thanks to the step by step instructions  and me doing the other cartoon of the flower and it made the cartoon making go by so faster! Done and Done! I am finally caught up!

Today is Thursday which means I wont be back to class until monday which means it is the weekend! Happy weekend!

-Until Next Week!

Food

Today I worked on making several graphs and tables of what I have eaten the past few days. I completely finished all the graphs for Tuesday of this week and I finished the main table for both Wednesday and today the only thing I was unable to finish was what I am going to have for dinner tonight other then that the main table for today(Thursday) is finished. After looking at the list of things we are suppose to have done, I realized that I am missing one piece, the cartoon of myself. I will try to come in and work on it in order to get it finished. But other then that I have everything finished and I feel that my work as a whole is good. My favorite is still my typographic flower! 

- Until Next Time!

Worded flower!

And this is the completed flower/typography, I really like this. This was one of my favorite things we have done in this class so far.




-Until The Next Photo!

Flower

I'm not finished with it yet, but this is basically how it will look like except there will be no black it'll be a light purple. I've enjoyed doing this and I will try and work on it before next time in hopes of being caught up with everyone else!

Heres the original!




-Until The Next One!

What are these?

1- Tail
2- Spine
3- Apex
4- Serif
5- Bowl
6-Finial
7-Counter
8- Descender
9- Stem
10- Spur
11- Link
12- Loop
13- Ear
14- Ascender
15- Arm
16- Crossbar


Until The Next One!

Chinese Bloggers

I think you cant control the companies from paying people to create good publicity for them. I personally think its a good idea, with the amount of time people spend on the internet looking up products and consumer reviews, it seems that this was inevitable, companies finding a way to alter the reviews or at least alter the ratio of good to bad reviews. I don't think it is okay or not okay for the companies to act like this, my thinking of it is it's gonna happen either way, their just playing their role in a game. Nothing on the internet should be taken as fact or complete truth unless you have personally researched the topic using a book or something other then the internet and have read the same information. I don't think it affects the integrity of the internet, the internet has always been a place where people can express what they feel, think, or know. They could feel very strongly that pluto is a planet but according to scientific research it isn't. Nothing on the internet, I feel, affects the internets integrity. Whatever you read on the internet you have to take at face value don't read into it much or base your own opinions on it unless you have found the same information on in something other then the internet. This is unfortunate that companies feel the need to do this, but it is also unfortunately that what someone says on their blog can alter someones opinion so much they wouldn't buy it. It doesn't affect the blogging worlds integrity or honesty just the person that is writing it. The blogging world cant control what people write or say they just allow the people a place to write about how they feel or their interests. It's like you can't be mad at a company who sold someone a gun, following all the rules, and he then turned around and killed people with it. The company was just doing what they've always done, selling guns, and then this one person turns around and uses it for something bad thats not the companies fault.




-Until the Next Assignment!

Next Photo!

This is something else I got done today. So I only have just a little left. I will try my hardest to catch up next time!
It is the weekend




-Until Next Week!

Photoshop

 Through the set by set instructions I was able to edit  this photo and turn it into this next photo.

- Until the Next Phototshop Victim!

Cartoon Me

So I went today to start working on the cartoon of myself for an assignment I missed last week. I followed everything the instructions told me to do, but when I got to drawing on the second layer it started to act funny. It allowed me to draw/ outline whatever I wanted but when I would click to start outlining the next thing it would erase my last outline. Along with that once I finished an outline it would fill it white. I'm not quite sure how to fix any of this so I'm going to wait until Mr. Double U is back next week and then complete the assignment. Cant waist much more time I'm behind from being sick and need to catch up!


-Until the Next Photo!

Post Second Six Weeks

I feel that I have been good about getting my assignments done correctly and on time. I work diligently during class and am very good about getting my work done on the dates they are due. Because I work like I do during class this allows me to be finished and continue on to the next thing sooner then others that might not be as focused as me. I am also able to ask questions and be able to give that time for further explanation so that I can fully understand what we are working on at that point. In the past six weeks I have learned how to use iPhoto and Photoshop, I have certainly not mastered everything, but I have given it all my best effort.


- Until The Next Assignment!