Semester 1 of Sophomore Year

Projects This Semester

This semester we started with photoshop tutorials which were quite easy. Then we moved to illustrator things along with some other photoshop stuff. I liked the illustrator stuff more because I understand photoshop more than illustrator. My two favorite projects from this semester were the pop art project and the infographic because I had creative control over what I was going to produce. My bechance profile where you can se more of my work is https://www.behance.net/jadenb41877cf .

Pop Art

The project was to take pictures and make them into pop art using adobe photoshop. For me it took a couple of days to complete because I did two different images but the one you can see now is my favorite of the two. The thing that was most challenging about doing this project was figuring out a way to do pop art but, in a way that stays true to myself. Eventually I found a way to get the results of obnoxious and aesthetically pleasing by using heavily saturated boxes. I don't really know what I learned with this project other than the fact that as much as I love black and white I really do love obnoxious stuff. Feedback I was given while I was working was to not obstruct her eyes as much and yet I didn't listen because I don't like doing what makes sense at times. My opinion this work is that I'm a mess and maybe just a tad bit obnoxious you can see by the way I covered Jenna in boxes.

i don't wanna be bloo

Infographic

This project was to choose a topic to make an infographic about. The topic I chose was Wes Anderson's nine movies because I have a deep appreciation for the way he creates worlds. This took me about a month to do because at first I had chosen to make it over slam poetry but I made it harder for myself. Therefore I made it annoyingly difficult with my choice to make 27 icons. Challenges I faced while creating this were wanting to continue making 27 icons and figuring out how I was possibly going to finish 27 icons. Along the way I learned that I clearly don't care about how I'm going to finish it. No, in all seriousness I learned a lot about the different ways to use illustrator and how the tools work in illustrator. Feedback I was given along the way was to not start over and after I after I started over the feedback I was given was do not make 27 icons.  My opinion is that the 27 icons don't look that great and should have stuck with slam poetry.

Wes Anderson's Nine in 27 Icons

Class Time

In times I thought I was done I stayed productive by going backhand thinking of ways to improve my designs and wen I was done doing with that I worked with outside projects. I pretty much did the same outside work when I finished projects early. I guess doing outside projects and messing around in illustrator enhanced my abilities because I was familiarizing myself with the program and its tools. Outside of class I sketch designs for different thins occasionally. Especially when there's some item with really gross packaging I'll think of ways it could look less like a dumpster fire.

Strengths

The two strengths I have as a graphic design student are the fact that I have a basic understanding of the programs we've been using this semester and that I always know how I want things to look. Since I know how I want things to look I don't stop tweeting them until they look exactly how I was envisioning them.

Areas of Improvement 

The area I can improve in the most is decision making because I am constantly bothering Jenna about every little thing and I don't even take her advice even when it's really good advice. I can also stop distracting Jenna. Also I kind of just suck at graphic deign even though I really enjoy it so it would be nice to make stuff that looks better.

Summary

What I loved most about this semester was spider manning my love to Jenna for any reason. I also really enjoyed the projects since I got the chance to explore illustrator and what I can make in it. My take-away is that I'm doing graphic design next year since I really like it and it doesn't usually make me wanna cry. My goal next semester is to make quality content.