Hello there! Welcome to "Getting Art Smart". I'm Grace, and I'm pretty new to this idea of art and what it means. Up until this semester of my college career, the word "art" to me just meant either: That class I went to a few times a week in elementary school where I made that papier-mâché dog and felt like I had to make everything perfect and just like the teacher's example. Or... The paintings and sculptures set up in an art museum that I wasn't "smart" enough to understand or draw meaning out of. But, after just two weeks of taking classes like "Foundations of Digital Media", "Critical Approaches to Cinema", and "Introduction to Photography", I'm learning that art comes in so many different forms and I see and understand it in my everyday life way more often than I thought. One form of art that I've admired, appreciated, and even tried to make myself, is music videos. Music videos have ...
We made it. This poster took me hours, as expected, and I probably could have worked for hours more if I didn't stop myself. I'm pretty proud of what I was able to do my first time using Adobe Illustrator, but definitely need hours of more practice to get good at it. I'm sure there are easier ways to do some of the things I did and I probably over-complicated things like crazy, but that's all part of the learning experience. The more I added the more unmanageable it got, since I don't know all of the best ways to organize layers and to make sure I wasn't messing with something while working on something else. I did really enjoy this program and plan to practice with it more so it can be a skill I actually have. I just hope that I did a good enough job to properly tell the story I was trying to. No one should have to live in a tent under an overpass. No one should have to worry about where they'll get their next meal. In this country, so many houses and b...
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