Week 14-New Website

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Assignment:

We had to create and publish a new website for our art work!

Craft:

I used as plain black design as a background. This I feel makes my work stand out better than on a cluttered busy webpage.

Composition:

I placed each piece on its own page. That way the image is the center focus of the viewer.

Concept:

To complete a website for VisCom highlighting my artwork. Most everyone else in the class created busy webpages that look awesome but their work gets lost in the page. I wanted to create a plain webpage so that my work is at the forefront.

Week 13

Assignment:
To create a unique website using Iweb application in the computer lab.

Craft:
I got the first page done. The second page I was not able to complete. So my work was way below par.

Composition:
I chose the black background because this is an art website and as an artist you want your artwork to stand for themself. I wanted nothing to distract from my pieces as some of the more brightly colored templates would have done. I am attempting to make the site as plain and easy to navigate as possible because as more junk that gets added to a site, I have found the quicker it is for people to lose interest.

Concept:
I have conflicting intrests. For the class we are supposed to create a site that is an individual expression of our personallity but as a designer I want to make a site that is more distant yet clearer to understand and makes my work pop. To do that I need to make the site as plain as possible and mearly use the site as a frame for my work. I have the rest of the week to play with the site to figure out specifically what I want to accomplish with it.

Week 12

Last frame of Comic

Assignment:

Put the final touches on our comic.

Craft :

I added some dialogue to the last panel on the first page. I deleted the panel explaining my character waiting's actions since it just seemed to add confusion to the story and I couldn't find a way to make it work.

Composition:

I still like the green and red color. I feel that the paneling worked best the way it was originally. I tried to streamline the flow of the piece.

Concept:

Same as before. Girl gives a boy her heart. He breaks it. She still loves him anyway.

Week 11

Assignment- 

We had to create a comic strip using a program called comic life from the images we drew.

Craft-

Monday we had a critique. I am not really sure what to change. I had about half of the comments tell me they love it and the other half told me they didn't understand the story. They did not tell me what they didn't understand in the story though so I have no idea what needs to be fixed.

Concept-

A girl wraps her heart to give to a boy she likes. (The heart she wraps is patched because it has been broken in the past like most people's hearts have.) She travels to the boy's house to give him her present. He is waiting for her. She gives him the present and he is excited. He runs off to give her a present from him. He has a choice between his box(a mutual exchange of feelings) or a mallet which represent the destruction of the relationship. He choses the mallet and destroys her heart.

Composition

I am going to try and make my story more clear to the audience. I believe I will take out a scene which I believe adds to the confusion in the comic. I will add dialogue to the earlier scene to make the comic move more smoothly. I don't want to change it to much however because half the people liked it as is and to be honest so do I.