Natalie's Blog

Artist Statement For this project, we had to create business cards for ourselves. Using our logos we had to design the card with text, logo placement, and any other designs or graphics. I used a different vibe for each of my cards. The black background and the purple flower was a dark and bold look. The flower is bold and the lines on the corners draw a focus on the centered items. The green background is a gradient which adds an extra layer and look to the light and fun feel of the flower, which is paired with a fun writing font as well. The blue logo is very bold and tropic. I wanted a really curvy and tropical feeling font for the writing but a more clear one for the important information. The flower is in the middle but shares the spotlight with the name. Overall, I think this assignment was fun. I think it's a green chance to be able to be picky in the future with how my business cards will look.   

 For this project, I got to create my very own postcard. I had to chose a picture of an eclipse and create postcard around that image. I chose to do a simple picture of the eclipse that looked the most like how I saw it. When I viewed the Eclipse there was a plain orange around a dark circle. I tried to find a partial eclipse that looked similar to this picture but none fit the image I had in my head. I wanted to keep the back simple. The examples I saw basically restated the front text in the corner. the rest of the space is used for the address and message. The font was difficult to do because I wanted it to be both simple but work well with the image and aesthetic. I went for this specific font because I liked how the letters looked. They had a natural but also refined look to them. Overall, this assignment was really fun to do. I enjoyed learning how to make my own postcard and may use this assignment for the future. Especially when I have cooler pictures than the shop has. 

  I felt that this video went bay really fast. It was both helpful but also confusing because it was too fast to follow along. The narrator had clearly sped the video up in order to show all the tools in a shorter amount of time. This video also shows what the shortcut is on the keyboard to help with quicker editing.  A cool tool they show is the content collector tool. You can grab all of the content on the board and then place it elsewhere from a conveyor belt. Overall, InDesign seems very similar to Illustrator especially with the tools and how this video shows what you can do with it.  In this video, the creator shows from the beginning on how to create a new file and project. He makes us follow him through the process of creating a flyer/ poster thing using all of the tools. I really appreciated this video because it allowed me to see the tools used in an actual project rather than creating a shape and using the tool then deleting it. In this project, he showed the pages element t

 For this assignment, we had to tell a narrative and use the animation tool on photoshop to tell the story. I decided to tell the story of a flower. This flower gets rained on in the beginning and then has the sun come out after. Then it turns into another flower. I used mostly clip art for the main objects such as the rain, clouds, and original flower. Then I used my own grass that I drew as well as a plain blue background. I chose that color of blue because I thought it could be both the color of a nice day or of a rainy one. Then the second flower is my type brush. So this sunflower changes into a hibiscus.  If I were to redo it or change anything, I think I would try to make it a never ending gif. One that looks like it repeats over and over again. I know how I should do this but I was too excited to do other aspects of the gif that I skipped parts that should have been first. Overall though, I think this was a really fun exercise  and I hope I can play around with this photoshop f

In this video, the artist uses the paintbrush tool to draw out a walking character. I wasn't able to follow this video as much as I wanted to because his mouse was so small that I wasn't able o see it sometimes. However, this was a really cool video to watch about Frame by Frame animation. He makes a forever loop of a man walking. He makes this with only 4 frames but with multiple layers on each frame. I think my project will end up having more frames. this project seems easy but also daunting. Especially since you have to keep a very keen eye on your layers and the frames they are on.  This video was very quick but gets right to the point. I think a bit more info would have been better. However, it makes it less daunting for our project. It is from 4 years ago so I don't know if the software has changed a lot since but if it follows the same, this should be somewhat easy. I liked how he mentions copying the frames so that you can make more faster. That was something the ot

  for this assignment we had to choose a scene from a movie or tv show that we want to put ourselves into. I decided to do the Twilight universe because its a comfort film of mine. I wanted to do a scene where me being there would have been funny but decided to go a bit more realistic with the family baseball scene. I took my friends jersey and a baseball cap I had to create the outfit. I also put my socks over my pants to match the long socks over the pants that baseball players have sometimes. When putting myself into the image, I had to cut out myself and make sure that my shape would look good against the backdrop. I also had to edit my tone and hue to match that of the Twilight world. That was harder than expected because when they are filming they have specific lighting and then made the filter over it. I had to only work with the filter. Overall, I think this project was really fun. I can see myself doing this type of photoshop again.  original images... final image....