35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters

When I went to the art varsity website I wasn't quite sure what I was going to be looking at. When I started to read and saw the amazing artwork with the certain different color pallets that these great artists had chosen I was pleasantly surprised that no two colors were ever the same and that none of the colors were very shockingly bright, they were all modest and subtle and darker hues. The website really does a great job on helping you to think about your own color pallets and gives you the option to go and extract colors from your favorite paintings that might not already be presented on their site. It's refreshing to see how certain colors were mixed together to create such amazingly artworks. It really does inspire you to want to do it on your own and make your own pallet and hope its something worth while.

wooo!!

As of this very moment I have completed 10 blogs and feel caught up and its such a good feeling, I made sure not to bullshit my way through them I actually thought about what I wanted to say and didn't just throw ten blogs together just to have them. I also passed my sign language midterm and have started working out for the first time in my whole life, two very awesome accomplishments I must say. I have exactly an hour till class begins, I still haven't received my new debit card in the mail yet which results in me having no money and I am unfortunately hungry. Now I am done with the rambling and I think I will start my other blog project for my other class so I can get a head start on it.

See everyone in class and sorry if I blew up your sidebars with all my nonsense :)

Repetition and Cloning

At the moment I am still working on the Amelia Earhart photoshop exercise and for some reason it is just taking me forever. Everything else I had no problem with but for this one I can't seem to wrap my head around it and actually motivate myself to finish it. Clearly I will eventually get it done and Im sure it will look some what like the books version but again my whole procrastination out look on my life is taking over :). Today in class I am presenting my final magazine layout and I am pretty excited to hear what critiques everyone has about it. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

to be continued when I eventually finish this actual exercise....

Oh exercise 4

Exercise 4 was very simple after reading all the directions was said and done. There were 3 different smaller projects mixed into one. The first we had to create 5 squares which all had to be 1 inch by 1 inch. We then had to make a lot of editing adjustments to colors and we then had to make duplicates of all the boxes and change those to greyscale. After changing them to greyscale we had to arrange all the colors from darkest to lightest which was simple for me because the colors I had originally chosen were all fairly different. The next parts of this assignment were easy as well and I had them done in no time. Everything is consistent with trial and error, yes the reading tells you what to do but sometimes you just have to play around with the program to really get a feel for it and actually see what you have the power to do.

Magazines!

Im pretty sure I have fallen in love with how people can design and layout certain things in magazines. I look at and read magazines all the time and unless that article really jumps out at me then i'm just going to skip right past it and move on. A good article needs to grab your attention and convince you that you should spend a few minutes on it. This project gave me the opportunity to explore all kinds of different magazines and different layouts. I googled magazine layouts so I would get a wide variety of different kinds.

Each one of the layouts above are all completely different and speak out to people in different ways. They all have the aspect of having an element that can grab on to the reader and make them read what has to be said. It amazes me how brilliant people are and how they can come up with so many different things. When I did my layout and it was all said and done I really didn't want to stop I wanted to keep coming up with new things for different articles. I think I might of found my niche.

Helvetica

The movie Helvetica I thought was very interesting, at least the parts we saw in class I was intrigued by. I never realized that almost every aspect of the design industry is so dependent on one typeface. Everyone is just so used to seeing exactly what in front of them, many people only notice typefaces when reading or certain ads. The movie shows that it is on almost everything in plain view. Since the movie I take more time looking at signs and billboards and such to see what has different types on it and whether or not I think it really suits that product. I compare almost everything to Helvetica and always wonder why more companies don't use it and chose something else. The typeface in reality can make or break certain things. Helvetica was explained as being so commonly used because the font is simple and everyone can trust it, it gets the information across to the people and is very straight forward and clean. Their are things in our everyday life that need to be conveyed and clear such as traffic signs, you need that information right then and there. It was fun listening to the different points that the designers gave and see how in love they are with the field of work they are in.

Human Corpse and the Double Exposure

Our first Photoshop exercise proved to me that I am a little rusty when it came to Photoshop I haven't used the software in years and it kinda showed. But, once I started getting familiar with it again things started looking up and the program started coming back to me. For me It is always a task going back and forth from the text to the program, I feel like I get lost in the words and skip steps (Im pretty sure I have ADD). At times even tho you are following the instructions and doing everything to the book what you are doing looks nothinggggggg like theirs, but when that happens you fix it and move on. Things like this take awhile and I always just want to get things done but I really need to learn to slow down and enjoy the experience. I have a valiant effort and feel like this exercise came out well.

Very First Project

I absolutely loved doing this project and had a good time designing it. Doing magazine layouts and putting things together is what I would love to do with my future. I get inspired all the time by how things are put together and whether or not it grabs the readers attention or even someone just passing by. Once again I didn't pre plan (probably something I should plan on doing) I looked at all my options and chose the great pumpkins since I believed there was more I could do with it. As soon as I got the text how I wanted it everything else started running smoothly. The layout of the pictures and the texts I feel go really well with each other and my choice of colors fits the article. I was in love with my final project and how it turned out, even the guy at Fedex said he really enjoyed what I had done.

Exercise 1

For exercise one  we had to create a dynamic composition using the Rectangle tool in Adobe Illustrator. We had to copy The Poet, 1911, Egon Schiele, oil on canvas. I thought it was fun trying to copy an image done on canvas and try to portray that through a computer software. The only issue that I came across was size it was hard for me to judge how big or small I actually wanted it. With my fianl project I feel I did the best work I could of done with the coloring and positioning of the different rectangles to make it somewhat actually look like Egon Schiele's work.

 

The books rendition

 

My rendition

 

Original work

 

On Wednesday September 5th....

On Wednesday the 5th we spent a good amount of class time working and playing around with indesign. I actually really enjoyed it after I got the hang of using it again and remembering come of the commands. It reminds me of Photoshop and I've had experience with Photoshop over the years but using some of these programs is like riding a bike and once you get used to it its easy.

Indesign came to me really fast. I really enjoy editing things and designing different layouts and seeing what possibilities there are out there. I didn't do that much brainstorming since I enjoy just going into things with a blank slate and playing around with different designs and colors and such. With the initial project I took it upon myself just to throw a bunch of different things together and see where it took me. I need to practice on all the different aspects of the program but I feel what I came up with was a good start. It would be nice to sharpen my tool on making different designs and shapes and layouts. I love playing around with different colors and texts. Things that pop out at you really catch my eye and clean looking designs I'm a fan of but I enjoy being bold and get my point across.
The colors, lines, words and everything else that brought together my project I think showcased me in the way I wanted to be portrayed by just my initials and some buzz words.

Dear COM 322 fellow students....

In all honesty I have been extremely lazy and caught up in everything else that I have neglected to blog for this class (except for the very first post). But! starting at this very moment I will get myself caught up and blow up this blog, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up :).