December 11, 2017

This project was REALLY hard for me.  I have NO faith in my drawing. I did procrastinate a little with starting the actually design.  In stead of doing drawings and thinking about what I could do, I spent a lot of time the first week looking at different graphic novels. I have looked at them briefly before, but not with a learning eye.  It really is interesting to see how different people think about them.  The videos were interesting that were posted with the project.  I just couldn’t find the creative part of me to start more then the basic layout. I still don’t really faith in the project. Apparently, I need to work on my drawing skills.  Maybe then I would have more faith in a project like this. I had issues with the my computer not wanting to work with the tablet pressure so everything is the same pen weight and the stroke is heavier then I would like it to be.  I like the overall story and the idea behind the pictures, but REALLY don’t like how it looks in drawing style.  That I don’t think I will ever be able to change.  I just don’t have the talent in drawing. I will attach to here the different steps that I took to get to my final product (at least to the point when I am posting this).

Here are the last 2 steps that I got to as of this post.  I don’t think that my graphic Novel will get past this point before the final class.

December 11, 2017

I am sad to have it come to an end. I REALLY did like the class.  I learned a lot! The only thing that I would have liked to have changed is how much time I had to work on projects at home.  Every time I would block time to work on my projects I would start and then have interruptions that I couldn’t say no to.  I am really glad that I took this class though.  I learned a lot about myself through it. I learned that I like Graphic Design a lot more then I realized.  I am really going to have to think about what career I want to pursue. I learned that I would like to take more classes about Graphic Design.  Another fun thing that came from this class is that my son and I have something in common that we both like as a result. It showed me a side of him that I thought was there, but that he hadn’t really realized. Hopefully, over time he will develop confidence in himself to further pursue. I hope that in the future that I get to do more things with Illustrator, just as I am now using InDesign in my daily life.  I also learned that I don’t have confidence ing myself and my lack of belief in myself really effects how things turn out and how I am about reviewing the things that I have done. I really am glad that I came back to college now that I am a non traditional student.  I feel that I look at college differently then I did when I was younger.  I also have to say that I love the professors that I have had so far in all my classes at Middlesex.

December 5, 2017

In class we worked on our Graphic Novels.  I learned that someways are easier to think then others.  I found that drawing in a sketch book doesn’t help my thoughts flow as well as drawing on a white erase board.  I also learned that it is more fun for me to draw on a white erase board then in a sketch book.  Again I am amazed at how talented everyone in class is.  They really are gifted.  I know that that is a talent that will never be my strong point.

November 28, 2017

We handed in our projects today.  I really like how mine turned out.  It was fun to make them, and see how different they all look just by changing the colours. Everyones turned out so well.  In looking at everyones there are somethings that I will play with in the future to make look different.  Things like zooming in to the circles. Here are the final versions of mine.

November 21, 2017

Todays class was good.  We went over our projects so far.  I think I understand better what the different ways to use colours. We then worked on them to organize them and label them properly. We also made any adjustments that needed to be made.  We talked about our next project.  It looks like it could be fun if I can think creatively. This class has been fun as I expected it to be.  Can’t believe that there are only 3 classes left.

October 31, 2017

This project was interesting.  I found it fun and challenging to challenge my thoughts on how you see something.  I really would like to make more of these, but as life is showing me right now I don’t really have time to do more practice.  Hopefully over winter break I will be able to play with it more.  Here is my project that I did.

October 31, 2017

This was a project that we did in class.  It was actually fun to do this one.  I have always liked colour and been told I had an eye for it.  I think that it turned out ok.  It was the first time for me really seeing how colour works in Illustrator.  It is going to be interesting to see how the computer changes things slightly from actual paint.  This will take practice more.  Which right now I seem to be majorly laking in.  I am not even able to get time to get the sleep that I need as my schedule is right now.  Here is what my blending looked like done in Illustrator.  It is clear that I really need to do work on the brighter blender.

November 7, 2017

Class was fun.  My son had off from school so he came with me.  We were making the colour wheel in Illustrator.  It was much harder to make this way then when I had done it by hand before in college.  It really showed me how much the computer can change the colours.  It did help me learn how illustrator wrks with colour.  I had a slight issue with fixing one set of colours and my son (who also did the class work) had to come and help me.  It all came so easy to him.  It was amazing as a parent to see your child actually light up as he was learning something.  This next project I am interested to see how it turns out for everyone.  It is working with colour on a project that we have done previously in black and white.

This is my Colour Wheel.

October 31, 2017

Class was good.  We did gradation things. It was fun to learn how to do this on a computer.  It made me miss working with colour, but not enough to go back to Interior Design I don’t think.  I am looking forward to next class because my son will be coming with me.  He is so excited to see what it is like to go to a college class.

October 24, 2017

This class I unfortunately forgot to blog about after class or within a decent time and I don’t remember what we did.  I hate how this feels.  Life just gets busy and I have to accept that and learn from it.