Creative Challenge 14

 This week  I found my creative excerise in the book entitled Caffeine For creative mind : 250  excerises to wake up your mind. 

I had so much fun with this excerises. I played with lighting and focal depth and I really enjoyed playing director with my son and my best friends niece. 

The challenge was called Sharpie, shirt pocket, laundry Bell. The challenge is to create a story using only three photographs. The first photograph being the beginning,the second one being the middle and the third photo being the end.

I think one of the biggest challenges was trying to keto the kids from laughing and to not laugh myself. This is what I came up with.

 

Learning About Design 5

 Good Morning! I am in such a great mood! I am feeling increasingly confident that I have made the right choice for myself in terms of changing schools and pursuing an educational path that allows me to embrace my love of art and design. Transitioning from a degree in medicine at Polk State College to a degree in graphic art and design at Keiser University was scary at first, but I have learned so much and have had such a great experience with my peers and with the staff. 

There have been quite a few setbacks, but I refuse to give up. I have an amazing professor who has believed in me when I felt less confident in my ability to persevere. But as I sit here reflecting on what I have learned so far, I realize that graphic design is everywhere, much more than I could have ever imagined!  For those who tried to discourage me and tell me there's not that great of a need for graphic designers or that I'd have to live in a big city to become successful ...I can't help but smile, because I know that I am going to show them how misinformed they are about graphic design.

Initially, I began this program with dreams of working in the video game industry.  I still am very interested in doing so, don't get me wrong but now I feel as if my eyes have been opened to ideas and options I never would have imagined existed. 

Learning that graphic design touches almost every aspect of our lives daily is wild. Whether it's posters, logos, branding, advertisement, commercials, animation, or movies the power for us as consumers to be motivated to purchase a product or choose one company over another based on the appearance, color choice, typeface and ability to convey an intended message to the targeted audience is incredibly fascinating to me and empowering at the same time.  

Design theory has been the most eye-opening class I've taken yet and has solidified so many thoughts and feelings I've had throughout my life about what is important and what feels right when my pen hits paper. I now know the reasoning as to why things look or feel better visually and that there are steps taken to ensure the final design conveys the intended Message to the targeted audience correctly.

 It's just exciting. Things make sense now. I'm growing increasingly confident with each day of practice. I can't wait to see what we learn in photography. ( I've been waiting for this class!) :-D

Senua's Saga Magazine Cover Week Three Project

This week, we were tasked with creating a magazine cover. I found this project to be the most fun and exciting one I've attempted so far. I also learned more about using Photoshop and felt much more comfortable this time around. I learned how to properly place and size images on my canvas, as well as how to create a realistic-looking barcode. Additionally, I focused on using visual hierarchy to grab the reader's attention and emphasize the most important features.

Week Two Project 2B

This week we were asked to create a travel brochure poster. I learned quite a bit about Photoshop something I was not familiar with. I was able to implement things like visual effects and Photoshop affected composition. I learned how color choice and type things matter massively it was quite different than just reading it when I saw how it affected my work.

Creative Challenge 13

This week for my creative blog I decided to go with the creative exercise used in the video that I posted below it reminded me of when I was little and we used to do ad libs for fun in fact I still like to do those. 

https://youtu.be/3G6qMzwmDgg

In this video the creative exercise begins with a paragraph that reads

"A man woke up in the center median of a busy highway unable to remember how he got there he was holdng an authentic 18th century Spanish sword in one hand and an empty bottle of peppermint schnapps in the other hand "

The next step in this creative exercise requires you to add three more sentences within 3 minutes that explain how we arrived at the following sentence that concludes the paragraph. Which reads

" he picked up the chicken, apologize to the young woman and rode away.

This I found myself drawing a blank. This really had my creative juices flowing. Trying to fill in the blank with 3 minutes with three sentences that completes this paragraph with a beginning and ending this crazy was interesting,but here's my attempt.

"A man woke up in the center median of a busy highway unable to remember how he got there he was holdng an authentic 18th century Spanish sword in one hand and an empty bottle of peppermint schnapps in the other hand 

"A woman stood above him shouting " you drunken fool. Get your own chicken. That chicken  belongs to me!

 he picked up the chicken, apologize to the young woman and rode away.

Creative Challenge 12

 Okay so I am now a really large fan of caffeine for the creative mind $250 exercises to wake up your brain a book that I found in our classroom and I absolutely adore it was written by Stephan Mamaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield.

In this book I found so many creative exercises that I love but for this week I chose one entitled Balder- What?

In this book i discovered this. This challenge  asks that you take the following 10 nonsense words and make up your own definitions for them.  It was interesting and I felt silly doing it but it was a lot of fun.

1. Izzard- the gizzards of a lizard

2. Voise- a unique voice that is hard to find

3. Visamush- when you try to visualize something but you're unable to and all you have in your Mind's Eye is visual mush

4. Cubular- when you take Bear Cubs and multiply them by three . For example when a bear delivers three bear cubs that's a cubular birth.

5. Limacious- The most delicious limes or lime flavored food and beverages

6. Wimmple- A tiny pimple

7. Zazz- Something that is full of pizzazz

8. Hottage- A very hot and humid Cottage.

9. Irratainment- Irritating and annoying entertainment

10. Screenpeep- When you catch somebody looking through your screen door or when you get the ability to get a preview to a new movie.

Creative Challenge 11

So I was racking my brain, trying to think of something to post in this week's creative challenge. I honestly was beginning to feel like I had found everything there is to see on YouTube( in terms of creative challenges). 

In the reflection of a pot

I was hoping to find something challenging yet fun and different than what I had been seeing in my searches online.  Then I recalled that my professor had repeatedly informed us there is a small library of books on creativity for us to take advantage of and had encouraged us to do so.

In the reflection of the grill on my friends truck

I took my professor's advice and I'm so glad I did! 

My gosh the book he suggested a book specifically entitled Caffeine For The Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain written by Stefan Mamaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. This book contained a plethora of great creative exercises. I had a hard time choosing one!

This is in the reflection of my friends car door

The one I did decide on for this week is called "Is my hair okay?" The challenge explains that you are to take 10 photographs of 10 reflective surfaces the challenging part is capturing yourself taking the picture on the reflective surface so I went ahead and did that it was pretty difficult but a lot of fun and I had a lot of laughs while trying to do that here is my resultsI was struggling to find something to post for this week's creative challenge. I felt like I had exhausted all the creative challenges on YouTube and wanted something different. Then I remembered that my professor had mentioned a library of books on creativity for us to explore. I took their advice and found a great book called "Caffeine For The Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain" by Stefan Mamaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. It had many creative exercises, and I had a hard time choosing one.

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                                                                                       This one is in the reflection                                                                                                          an old tv

I finally decided on the "Is my hair okay?" challenge, which required taking 10 photographs of 10 reflective surfaces, capturing myself in the reflective surface while taking the picture. It was difficult but a lot of fun, and I had a good laugh while attempting it. Here are my results!

                                                                                    

                     In the reflection in the back of the side view mirror

                                  sunglasses

                                               tire rim 

                                                    friends dead phone screen

                                                        spoon