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Pour painting has been my niche lately. This one is my favorite! I love pouring the paint on and waiting until the end to see what I end up with. I was inspired by a @michaelsstores pour painting in an ad which honestly looked nothing like this but it was my starting point. I love how this turned out 😍 #acrylicpainting #pourpainting #blue #abstractpainting #art #artistsoninstagram #blackartists #artblock https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzDaX2nyWv/?igshid=zztgakk1hn5e

So, I had a flop 😑 I was just going for it and didn't think too much about the colors I chose. I think I did pretty good reviving it. Pour paintings have been my saving grace since I haven't known what I wanted to create in a while. #acrylicpainting #pourpainting #artblock #abstractpainting #blackartistsmatter #blackartists #goldleaf #goldleafart https://www.instagram.com/p/CFIKnIaHR81/?igshid=jmca4voysdcs

Tried to imitate Irving Penn's still life style. I really like how this turned out https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Nhj-bHk6u/?igshid=1qng53evccxay

I guess I never did post this. Here are some of the logo designs that I decided to work on for Peggy’s pizza. This was a great opportunity to earn a actual award. The first prize was $250 and second place was $100 and $50 for a logo. I ended up not really doing so well. I ended up struggling a lot with motivation at this point in the semester and this point in the pregnancy, but I tried. And at the end of the day that’s all that matters.

One of our last projects was to create a personal website in wordpress. I have to say I did not enjoy using wordpress as much as I thought I would. I expected it to be easier than it was. But after I realized that I could just pick a theme and go from there. It became easier.

For one of our final projects we needed to create a looping animation. I struggled with making a logo and getting it animated in AfterEffects so I found a cool idea to do in Photoshop but that wasn’t the assignment. So, I ended up back in AfterEffects and decided to create a very simple but effective animation with my name.

For our final project we were given five paper cars that we needed to come up with a design on. The themes were black and white, type based, climate, music festival and one open ended. This is my open ended one. I was just thinking about incorporating color onto it and keeping it simple. Alas, this primary color beauty is what I came up with.

We went to Peggy’s Pizza to meet the client. She supplied us with free pizza for our hard work!

As the semester comes to a close, I find myself getting more and more tired. This is the hard part of the semester where we get a bunch of new projects tossed on us all at once by everyone. In this class, our final projects will be creating a Wordpress page and using AfterEffects to create an animation. Since I don’t have internet at home it has been rather difficult to continue working outside of class. So, I have been thinking about creating my animation in Photoshop but I know that will bite me in the butt later.

I also have to leave early to go to counseling. And Prof. Hyams had to leave as well to go to the meeting which caused me to have to reschedule my counseling. Y’all can’t see it but I’m waving my fist in the air.

Today, we uploaded both resumes to our website. A lot of people missed the last class. So, I get to work on work for other classes while waiting on the other students to get caught up. We will also open and use AfterEffects today.

Today, we’re uploading our resumes to our websites. We had to take a screenshot of the resume. Resize it in photoshop for the thumbnail. Make sure we had it saved as a pdf. Then, open and put things where they’re supposed to go in Dreamweaver. Test, test, test. Then, upload the new bio.html page in 000webhost and you’re all set!

We watched a movie and then went over most of the definitions from the typography list from back in February. We also went over some ideas for Peggy’s Pizza. Making this logo gives us the chance to win $250.

Today, we reviewed our interviews and watched this years senior interviews. We were also introduced to Character Animator and Prof. Hyams gave us a few tutorials and showed us how the software interfaces with other software such as encoder and Photoshop.

We worked on our graphic design resume and the rest of the class headed to Gramblin. So we had an early day pretty much.