Olivia’s Blog

 for this project I decided I was going to use a picture of me and my friends and put it onto mid-journey and see what it creates. at first I tried to get it to generate an old fashion style image but after a few times I liked the idea of making it become a black and white fancy looking image. after it generated the photo I liked, I brought it over to Adobe Illustrator and made it into a Vogue cover. 

 we are now creating a project where we are supposed to use two platforms we have learned how to use throughout the year and then use adobe in design to create a presentation of what was created. I am not sure what I am going to use for this but I think I want to showcase a vintage style ad in some sort or make a photo now look old fashion.

I think its really fun when I am looking at what other people have done throughout the semester and what they keep producing. everyone seems to have their own style and it is really cool to see how each person uses that style in each piece they create. sometimes I just go back and look through the dropbox just to see what everyone has done. 

 I have been using digital media outside of the classroom, both helping other people with things they cannot do and creating things to post on RedBubble. these projects have helped me figure out what I may want to do later on and helps me learn more and more tools within the platforms I use to create them.

 I really enjoyed creating my logo. it was fun to create something with my own name in it. I decided to use my initials for one logo so that it would be smaller where I can use it as a profile picture or in small areas on a portfolio. I also created one with my whole last name. it was fun to figure out how to use vectors on adobe illustrator. 

 I have worked with other people that I know to help them produce a logo for their own personal benefit or for their company. to create one for myself and something that I can use when creating a portfolio or later on in the future is really interesting and fun to me and I cant wait to see what I will be able to come up with. 

 For this project I decided to base my project on posters that I have seen on Etsy that I have liked. It is a retro style image of an object such as the sun, flowers, coffee, or food with a face. with this idea, I decided to do a spoon and a fork since there were supposed to be two different characters. It was kind of hard for me to figure out how I really wanted to do it, but in the end I was happy with how it came out. 

I have been working on a poster project which I have been having a hard time coming up with what I want to put into it because we need to create two of our own cartoon characters. I enjoy doing art work where we can trace things and insert some of our own ideas but I tend to have a hard time when it comes to fully producing our own work and coming up with something entirely new. 

Throughout my semester I have learned how to use photoshop and Illustrator which are two platforms I actually really wanted to know how to use. there were classes in my high school that people were able to take to learn how to use these and then they would print their projects and it was really cool to see all of the work that was produced. I am happy that I finally got the opportunity to learn something i've been wanting to.