Class Reflection

Well I’ll start of saying that this class had made me want to pull out my hair and also made me please with later results of some of my work for this class.

What I like about this class, is that you showed us different programs that are easier or they help more then the other more sophisticated programs, but the negative thing about some of the programs is that they are sophisticated (some of them did not give much control to the user.) I really like that Scribbler Too program, it is definitely a program I intend to use after this class. Assuming I do not purchase Adobe Illustrator anytime soon, I am planning on using Aviary’s, Raven for the personal handwriting I do because using a handwriting font because it is boring and I like my handwriting.

The hardest thing that I came across in this class was creating music because I have never done it before and I do not know how cords and stuff work. I probably would have been better if I at least knew how to play an instrument, but I lost interest in the guitar (probably wouldn’t if I was paying somebody,) and the original instrument I want to learn is the piano. The beat week almost made me give up on this class because I just was not coming together and the program that puts the beats together I did not get at first and that was the biggest problem I had. That week was finally over and then Monday came and we had to do another thing I have never done and that was put clips into a movie (I have created a movie before but that was just with pictures, more of a slide show with music.)

I would like to get better at creating music because I would like to eventually for the fun of it write my own music and lyrics (maybe I can get signed or sell it to somebody.) another thing would be get better at creating a movie, although I intend to use pictures I constructed to create an animated movie I had in my head.

For my career as a graphic designer, I believe I mastered making logos although you cannot tell with the logos I made for this class because I have made several that have turned out really well (it is kind of scary because I do not want to make people logos.) I also mastered scribbler somewhat and this would be good with inner design of the album booklet.

Overall I would like to get better at everything because personally I do not think I am that good at anything that we did in this class. I have not done anything digitally that long or made it my life to be that good at creating digital artwork. That’s partly why I am not trying to go into business without going to college because I know I need more skill and I want to work with an actual business in the beginning.