fmx210-3 digital media

 This post doesn't have much to do with the class, but when we started these it was mentioned that we could write about anything concerning digital media, and I realized the other day that I owned something that I hadn't looked at in a while that I thought was interesting. I ordered this tot bag a while ago, and just now got a really good look at the design on it. This is the bag:  I thought of this bag and design to write about because now that I have some experience in Photoshop, I can see all the pieces the designer put together to made the finished product. For example, in the first layer they probably would have cut out the image of the boy, and then added the shadow of the blue square in the second layer. Then, they would've added the blue box in another layer, and the text on top of it. Lastly, they would have cut the dolphin image out and added on top of the boy's shirt in another layer. One thing about the design that I'm not a huge fan of is the text on th...

 Today we started using Illustrator and it's so much more fun than Photoshop. Photoshop sucks lowkey. Obviously, it'll take some time to get used to, but Illustrator is already so much easier to understand, although there were some tools that were just not working for me. For example, I literally couldn't get the blend shape tool to work,  OR the curvy text tool, so I'm going to have to play around with that. I can't paste what I made in class, but it felt very Minecraft inspired. Just very simple shapes. I am excited to work on our assignments for next week, though I do think the portrait might be a bit of a challenge. 

 Fake Art: ✅  As I looked at Seurat's different pieces, I noticed that a lot of them had bodies of water in them. "A Day at the Park" has people next to a lake, and "Bathers at Asnières" has people in front of another pond. I decided that I would create a image of a kind of picture I would take of Hollywood Beach, my hometown beach, and parts of St. Augustine, most notably the lighthouse. This was my final image:  I really like how it turned out, and I think I did a really good job of adding the different elements together into one cohesive piece. When you're starting at it as you work on it, you tend to notice each individual piece, but looking at it after you've closed it makes it look much more put together.  I added the cruise ship and the plane with the banner attached because you always see those at Hollywood beach, and the lighthouse, seagulls, and parent/child running seemed like more of the laid back vibe that you feel in St. Augustine. I also h...