Projects
Pop Art
This project was one of the first project we did. In this project we had to photograph other students I our class. Then we had to turn it into a pop art themed photograph in adobe photoshop. This took about a week. I felt this project was the easiest. The only thing I struggled with was cropping it at the end. This pretty much stayed the same as my initial idea. The only thing that changed was the background. While making his I learned more about the effects offered in photoshop. At the end I was very happy the way this turned out
Poster Contest
This is a out of school project I worked on for endorsement points. I made this for a civil rights poster contest. This project only took about three hours. While making this I reviewed the skills I made on illustrator from last year. At the beginning I struggled using it because I didn't remember everything from last year. This changed quite a bit from my initial idea because I tried a bunch of different things and choose what looked the best. I am very impressed with the finished result. |
| What I have so far :) |
Infographic
Most recently in class we have been working on infographics. In this project we researched a topic and made and infographic for it. This is a long project because it takes a lot of steps from research, sketches, graphics and the final. I'm yet to be finished with this. I have been working it on about a month and I'm almost complete with the finished graphic. I have changed a lot from my original idea along the way. In this project I learned how to make proper color swatches and how to use the pen tool. My main weak point in this project was getting too much information and, not being able to lay it out properly. So far I'm really liking how my graphic is turning out :)
How did I use my Time in class
Most of the time I have been quite productive. I usually spit the whole class time to finish projects. Sometimes I got done later so I would come in before school and power 50. Outside of class I would take endorsement opportunities to enhance my skills such as the poster contest, and lit mag. My main strength in this class is project management and my weakness is technical skills.
Final Summary
My favorite thing in this semester was the infographics. One thing I would do differently is to focus less on photoshop. I felt as a lot of those projects were more photography based over graphic design. I mainly learned skills on photoshop. My goal is to always improve my graphics!
