Blog Post #7

1. Create a four-year degree plan. How will this major help you prepare a career in the future? Do you have a back up plan if this major doesn’t work out?

My current major, graphic design, will help me prepare for an illustration or advertising career in the future, since I wanted to work with visuals in the future. My back up plan is to find a job in marketing, especially with organization.

2. Do you have a minor or have you considered a second major?

Before, I have considered taking Digital Marketing or Visual Arts as my minor because both could go with my major and help me better plan ahead with the career I want to go in. I currently don’t have a minor of second major, though.

Blog Post #6

  1. My greatest strengths in Drawing I include: Understanding and being able to apply the concepts I learn
  2. For greater success in this course, I need to: Practice more with drawing and my drawing style
  3. My greatest strengths in Visual Studies I include: Knowing how to capture color and forms of gestalt in images.
  4. For greater success in this course, I need to: Learn how to use computer programs more so that I can understand them.
  5. My greatest strengths in Leadership through Speech include: Gathering ideas and being able to give speeches without a written paper on it, just notes.
  6. For greater success in this course, I need to: Learn how to not move too much while giving speeches, and how to better prepare myself for impromptu speaking
  7. My greatest strengths in Rhetoric and Composition I include: Being able to write out my plans for research or writing
  8. For greater success in this course, I need to: Know how to be able to get my ideas in a way that others can understand

Computer skills:

  1. My computer skills include: Making documents, how to code computer games, drawing and designing with certain programs, and how to use the internet.
  2. I still need to learn: Animation, some aspects of photoshop, and code for programs.

Research & writing skills:

  1. My greatest strengths as a researcher/writer include: Coming up with ideas and/or arguments, and motivating myself to write them down.
  2. I need to work on these aspects of research and writing: Arranging my ideas in an organized manner and transitions.
  3. I learn best & accomplish most when: I do it myself, or when I hear it in song form.

ACTION PLAN:

One of the classes I’m struggling in is Visual Studies, the 10 ways I could improve is:

  1. I can study the programs I’m using outside of the classroom
  2. Study my environment more
  3. Learn more about what makes an image
  4. Talk more to my professors about how I can improve.
  5. Be able to clean up my projects so that they come out as they are supposed to be.
  6. Be able to take better notes as the lecture goes on
  7. Lean how to use an Apple Computer competently
  8. Study other student’s work to see what I can work on with mine
  9. See what I can do with projects to improve and send out a message
  10. Ask more often if I didn’t understand a part of the lecture.

Blog Post #5

Part 1:

When I saw the upper classmen’s work, I was amazed at all of them. For the graphic design presentation, I was fascinated by her use of nature in her work, and how she switched to doing physical works instead of digital ones. For the visual arts presentation, I took interest in how she developed, from doing cartoons to focusing on the mental state of the mind, and how she learned to make work that reach out to people. For the interactive game presentation, the part that stood out to me was how she made her first video games and how she got out to make connections in the gaming world, especially with developers at conventions and other events. And finally, for the photography presentation, I liked how not only did she use common colors in her work, that she traveled in order to expand her horizon for the photos.

Part 2:

From the websites I have looked at before, these ones are what I look forward to using in the future:

Tumblr, https://www.tumblr.com/

Tumblr is a social media blog site which is very famous among artists and photographers, and as a result a great way to get a word out about your work, since it is very easy to get attention from others if they are looking for similar interests, usually through “tags”.

Webtoons, www.webtoons.com/

Webtoons is a fairly recent yet really popular way to share comics. I wish to work on comics in the future, and this would be a good way to share work in that with anybody with interests in cartoons and comics.

Deviantart, https://www.deviantart.com/

Deviantart is the largest art community online and very popular, which is a good way to share art with other people, plus it is pretty much an online portfolio since it has everything to do with art.

Wix, https://www.wix.com/

Wix is another blogging site, most commonly used for businesses and sharing art. Because the site provides many ways to display works on it, it is a great one to use as a portfolio, as you can arrange it to display certain images and posts on each page.

Blog Post #4

The following images posted are of sketches I did in my drawing class. It’s the basics of 3-dimensional drawing, using common volumes. I used what was taught to be able to draw these, but some of these have thicker lines due to me wanting them to look the best I could make them.


The strongest aspect of this work is that I showed an understanding of how transparent 3-dimensional forms work in drawing. My weakest aspect is that there are some proportions that are disproportional. Conceptually, the project can be strengthened if I added some new angles to the forms instead of just the standard ones. Technically, it can be strengthened if I tried making them more proportional, or loosening up while I drawing them. I enjoyed doing this because it helped me with basic and conceptual 3D forms and designs.

CREATIVITY and MAKING_Massage

I have listened to and read The Medium is the Massage, and work done by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. One part of this work is in reading, the other part is a two-part audio recording using tons of music and effects in it as well as voices. This work, especially the audio part, has stuck out to me in a few ways.

In the audio part, there is a guy talking, and what often interrupts the speaking is other clips and samples of songs and shows/movies, as well as effects from the guy speaking. (Voice clips being sped up or slowed down, or mocked by a parrot.) Towards the beginning, the guy, as well as many voice clips and effects, said “There is music everywhere.” They were referring the sounds we hear, that anything and everything can be made into music. It goes on to talk about how our world of art and social interactions have changed over the years, especially with technology changing how we do art, how we travel, and how we speak to each other. It also talks about how because of it, minorities especially can no longer be silent.

In the reading part, the two authors further explain how electronics influence the youth and other people with ideas that not even mothers and fathers can teach, because we learn about the world outside and it sparks rebellious activities, such as wars, revolutions, and civil uprisings. It also talks about technology changes our views of connectivity and communities.

Overall, this work gave me more insight into what technology has gave us the ability to do, as well as how it has made us able to change our minds about our government and even our own home. And even from when this work was made, technology has continued to evolve into something which people can gain ideas as well as put out their own and give people new ideas on what art, moral, and governing should be.