My first blogpost/Progress Report!

This is my first blog post on my first blog....I feel behind from my classmates just saying that, but I'll manage.

I'm beginning to start my first projects of the school year and figured it would be a good idea to start a progress report of sorts.  At some breathing space during my current projects, I'll post how far along I am and give thoughts on any difficulties.  I think it could help if people knew about my projects during the actual process and how I feel about an ETA for completion... that way if someone has any good ideas, or if faculty want to know what exactly I'm doing (wrong or right) they can go here and look.

I'll try it out and see how it goes:

PROGRESS REPORT #1

Visual Communication I: My first project is complete and I did better then I initially thought I would.  I constructed my dots pretty badly harming what were fairly decent compositions (I thought).  Mrs. Gray commented along the same lines and also pointed out a few things hurting my message (I'll post the scans and the criticisms in a separate post when I get home from class).  I should do my main projects at the design studio unless I don't have a choice:  I didn't have a single solid surface to cut on in my entire apartment! Not only did I craft my project badly but it took forever just to do that.  I need to either keep my projects in the design studio, or buy a decent desk for cutting and drafting.

As for my current project, my partner Collin is unable to work tonight on it with me, so I'll continue to do my thumbnail ideas and gather some of my old magazines for use tomorrow when we can be 

 together.

Color, Drawing, Form: I've purchased all the items required for Friday and have set up this blog.  As far as my logo is concerned, my tablet experience helped me quite a bit in drawing the different shapes in the NASA logo (which I suspect may have made Mrs. Ludwig consider it a difficult project compared to the others), but its actually the simple (looking) matter of making the circle that it all rests upon. I am not sure what to do here, so I'll just accept that I don't know what I'm doing and wait for help on Friday. Mrs. Ludwig said there would be some time for help on the project then.   If time permits I'll try to smooth out the outline with the brush tool on Adobe Illustrator.

Typography 1: My letters project I'm fairly pleased with, but I'll draw it again more slowly and distinctly (and write something other then chicken-scratch...it seems bad form to write illegibly for a typography course). I feel confident about the project.

Overall, I'm not all that stressed about this week, I'll be fine as long as I use my time wisely (I usually do)

I have my other courses, but I figured all this blog was to be used for was for courses pertaining to my major.  If you're one of the faculty and want to know what part of my resume I'm on or what chapter I'm reading in Western Art...throw me a comment.  In the meantime I'll just assume that's none of your concerns.

Have a great school year,! I think I will!