Month: October 2017

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?

I am not entirely sure what a four-year degree plan is, but I want to space out my classes that I take throughout the four years properly, so that I graduate on time. I don’t want to miss any classes or anything like that. My major is graphic design, and I’m pretty sure that’s what I want to do. If I don’t end up doing graphic design, all of these arts classes that I’m taking will still prepare me for whatever else I want to do. I don’t really imagine myself doing anything that’s not related to art. So far the professors really seem to organize their classes based on preparing us for knowing what to do in the future. It’s really nice. If this major doesn’t work out, I could consider going into teaching (maybe art teacher?). Before I wanted to do graphic design, my first idea was to be a teacher.

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

• If so what is it and why do you think this will be a beneficial choice?
• If not, identify at least one minor or major degree option that you are interested in. Explain why you chose this option.

I don’t have a minor. I just have a major in graphic design for now. Continuing off of the last question, if I were to add anything it would probably be teaching/education. I think it will be a beneficial choice because it’s most likely a better/easier process finding a job in teaching than it is in the arts. Not only does it seem like it’s easier to get a job, but also it’s something that I am more comfortable with. I have been around teachers my whole life and I am very familiar with what they are expected to do, how to act, what makes a good teacher, etc.

After seeing the work of the upper classmen, I was really inspired. The presentation that I like the most was the art major. I really liked her type of art and style. Some of the things that she was doing (like making advertisements for events and stuff like that) is something that I might want to do in the future.

The presentation that I thought was the most useful was the video game studies major. Her presentation was very informative on what it’s like to be in the video game industry (based on what she has learned so far). The advice that she gave was really helpful and inspired me to want to be more involved in the scene (in the future). I’ve always considered making the art for video games.

The other presentations were also interesting to watch, mainly because they were good at showing what type of work someone would be doing in their respective major. The graphic design major made me realize that not all what I want to do is graphic design. There’s many other things related to art that I would like to do in my life.

 

This picture was of an assignment for Drawing 1 class. The goal of the assignment was to accurately represent a carton of milk through the use of several techniques relating to 3 dimensional objects and cubes that we have studied recently. I made it by first creating 3 dimensional cubes and triangles to make the box, and I used lots of smaller rectangles to make sure that the text and fonts are in the right place and the right size.

The strongest aspect of this work in my opinion is the proportions, the sizing, and the text on the box. The weakest part was the shading and strength of the lines. It was extremely light and hard to see from far away. This project can’t really be strengthened conceptually since the goal of it was to accurately portray a real life object. You’re not supposed to change anything about it. However, technically, it needs to be done over again with better and stronger lines. I need to do more shading and make sure certain parts are not too light.

This second project was for Visual Studies 1 class. The goal was to come up with a set of images that show different techniques of gestalt that we studied for class. I took a bunch of images with the focus of street art and graffiti. The strongest aspect of my work is possibly the subject material since I focused hard on it and it’s evident that I care a lot about what I’m taking pictures of. It’s something that personally interests me. The weakest aspect is probably that I took so many pictures of so many different types of street art. I feel like it would be stronger if I had a bunch of pieces on just graffiti, or just paintings. I think that’s probably how I could strengthen it conceptually. Technically, I noticed that I need to fix some of the compositions of the images. Sometimes I had things in the wrong spot so that it didn’t look like it was the main focus of the image.

Overall, I’m really enjoying the types of projects I am getting to do in college. I am already learning a lot.