Week 15

Assignment

Finish working on our website and publish it.

Craft

iWeb and Xythos were used in the process of making final changes and publishing the website. The process of publishing the site on Xythos was rather simple.

Composition

I wanted my site to be calming. The layout that I used accomplished just this. The colors were very cool colors (an array of blues, greens, and tans) and the fonts were classy cursive and classic standard fonts that were easy to read. The combination of the colors and fonts on my site made it very simple.

Concept

The concept was to display all of my artwork done in Visual Communication as well as tell the visitors to my site a little bit about myself.

For a more in depth explanation of my site, click here!

Week 14 - NEW WEBSITE!!!

I have a website so if you want to see it, you had better CLICK HERE!!!

Weel 13

Assignment!

Create a webpage

Craft!

Gather a couple of pictures as well as digital copies of our projects for the webpage. Use iWeb to create the webpage.

Composition!

"All That I Am..." - An explanation and introduction of myself to the world (not to mention anyone else who wants to meet me), complete with 2 photographs of myself and some personal information.

"Visually Communicating..." - An explanation and introduction to the world of Visual Communication (better known as Art 100), complete with the explanations and digital copies of the 3 completed projects I've done thus far in the course.

"My Artwork" - A more detailed look into my completed artwork, complete with before and after pictures/drawings.

Concept!

I wanted to tell a little bit about myself and a lot of bit about the course, explaining the concept of Visual Communication through the use of my artwork (and maybe a little bit of wording as well).

Week 12

Assignment

Finalize Comic Book and make any needed changes

Concept

I wanted to tell a comical story in a way that everyone would understand

Composition

After the critique, I received a lot of comments about how the order and layout of my first few frames didn't make sense. I got a few suggestions to switch some of them around. I put my original first frame a few frames later and my original second frame first. My story still managed to make sense. It actually made more sense than my first layout. I also received comments about how my last few frames needed more color. So I threw in some oranges and reds to brighten it up.

Craft

Of course for the coloring part, I used Photoshop. To reorder my frames, I used Comic Life and shifted around my frames, as well as added a few pages. I found a nice pink color for the background. I also found some cool frame shapes and layouts for the pages. My comic totaled out to 5 pages. Kinda long, don't you think? It's still pretty gosh darn hot, if you ask me...

Week 10

Assignment

Add color to the pictures for the comic. I used a series of reds, grays, blues, and yellows for mine. Unfortunately, it owuld not upload on here, no matter how many times I tried. But the show must go on!!!

Craft

PHOTOSHOP!!! What else??? Start with the main layer, which is the picture. Make sure it is multiplied so that the lines will come through. Then, simply add a new layer for each new color you choose to use. The paint bucket, paintbrush, and eraser come in handy for this.

Composition/Concept

I chose bright colors to make my picture pop more and give it a more "cartoonish" feel. It's a comic! It's supposed to be fun!!!

Week 9

ASSIGNMENT
Print out the images that we already have for the comic. Attend a critique in which our fellow colleagues would look at our "rough draft" of our comics.

CRAFT
I DREW THEM!!! HAND-DRAWN!!! Then I scanned them and put them on my USB. Then I printed them out...





COMPOSITION
The people who looked at my comic understood it well, even the "flashback" and "flashforward." I did my story this way because I wanted the reader to go back in time and see all the crap that the main character had to go through that led up to the point where the story actually started. The only thing that they did not completely understand was the empty wallet picture, which represented the character not having any money. I'm going to remove that picture from the comic because I was told that the cell phone picture of her not having any battery or signal would be enough to get my point across.



CONCEPT
I wrote my story the way I did because it takes the reader through the journey of the main character. All of the negative things throughout the story lead up to the dramatic ending.

Week 8

Assignment

Write a story that will be converted into a comic strip. Bring in pictures to begin using for the comic strip that you will create. They can be photographed or drawn. Drawn pictures must be hand-colored using Photoshop.

Concept

My concept was to try and get across every aspect of the story using as less words as possible. This means that the pictures being used should be very detailed. I ended up using one very short line in the last cell of my comic. The pictures that I drew are HIGHLY detailed, and I feel that they get the point across just fine!

Composition

I used bright colors for my first cell picture because I want my comic to not only catch, but also keep the reader's attention throughout the storyline. The bright colors also make the pictures pop more.

Craft

I used Photoshop to color in my pictures. The paint bucket, eraser, and paintbrush were my BFFs in doing this. The zoom function was also another close friend of mine. It helped to erase those details that I might have missed, and also to fill in little spaces that were IMPOSSIBLE to fill in when the picture fit the screen. The use of numerous layers (a different one for every color) helped to make coloring and erasing a lot easier than it would have been if I were just using one layer. Since this was my first time using the coloring function on Photoshop, my draft is a little rough, but it can be fixed!!!