My Digital World

This is another revision from one of my original welcome signs. I decided to change the background and put a filter over it which changed many of the original colors. I then changed the font and colors to match the rest of the background somewhat. I thought with my particular signs that less is more. Although I am new to this, I tried played around with a lot of different options but decided no to do to much to it because I kind of liked it the way it was. really enjoyed exploring the many options Illustrator had to offer. :)

Welcome Sign- Final Draft

This is my final version of one of my favorite welcome signs. :) I added a lot more splatters, which I really like because I am a huge painter and have a love for abstract shapes when it comes to art. I also love the background because its really colorful and out there and grabs the eye of the view. I added the myspace, facebook and twitter logos also to reflect the things that I am interested in virtually. I am always on these sites and regularly use them to display my art work :)

Welcome Sign- First Draft

So, instead of doing three separate images, I decided to revised one of my favorite welcome signs after listening to some of the critiques. This is the first one I did; here I was just experimenting with all of the different things that you can do with Illustrator so there isn't much on it because I really wasn't sure how we were supposed to portray our "virtual selves."

Warm Up Photoshop Exercise

This is a collage of images from one of our warm ups. Its basically just a series of 5 images combined together. I really haven't used Photoshop before so I was just sort of playing around with all the effects it had to offer. :)

"Virtual Self"

Technology has drastically changed the way we interact, communicate, and express ourselves. Email, myspace, Twitter, facebook and all those types of programs have totally changed our world connecting us and making it possible for us to communicate with people around the world instantly. Letters that would have once taken forever for the other person to receive can now be read and replied to in a matter of minutes. Not only is it completely awesome when trying to communicate, it is also wonderful for sharing and gaining more information. Almost every facet of our world has been enhanced by the influence of technology.

Personally, I love working with technology and although I am not that experienced with working with most of the digital programs, I do like to experiment with them. I like working with computers and use them constantly for communication purposes, but before this class that is all that I really used them for. My accounts on facebook, myspace, and this blog for instance all have some effect of a part of who I am but I have to say without it, I would still be the same old me. Technology has definitely impacted my life but it does by no means make me who I am. My personality and identity are not really that much effected by technology and computers. I feel like who we are without computers is completely different than our "virtual self." Our identities are much more fluid and easily changeable and moldable on the internet but overall it's really different than who we really are. For me, this class has honestly been a very different experience for me because I am an artist but I only with mostly oil paint and pencil. This class has opened up a different form of expression that I didn't really know was available to me. It's amazing what you can do with some of these programs! :)

City Scape

This is our first group project :) Lukas, Danielle, and I made this awesome mysterious city in the middle of the ocean.

Test Post

Test Post :)