Sara Lemieux-FMX-210

Original Sketches 3 Designed Business Cards   Artist Statement For this assignment I created my own personal business cards using Adobe InDesign. I first began by sketching out my original vision of what I thought I wanted my business cards to look like, however when it came time to actually designing I found new inspiration. I first step up the layout of the InDesign file to have six sides too it so three cards in total. I then downloaded two image backgrounds from Morguefile which I placed in the background of my cards to act as a backdrop for the rest of my design. I next created various designs including a sunflower, my initials, a border, and different colored variations of my tag brush. I arranged all of these designs into three different cards putting contact information on the back including a mock email address and phone number. My overall goal for the cards was to keep them simplistic yet make them unique in design. Overall, I am happy with the end result of each card and fou

  Artist  Statement  For this assignment I worked on creating my own animation using Adobe Photoshop. For the animation I decided to do it with the inspiration of my dog chasing a ball. To create it I found an image of a dog through a google search in two different positions that would look like it is running and sitting. I also found an image of a tennis ball and used the quick election tool to trace around the ball. When it came time to creating the actual frame animations I decided to create a story of two dogs chasing one another and chasing after the ball. Overall, I found this assignment to be slightly challenging when creating the vision that I had in my mind, however I am happy with how it turned out. 

 1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQeBL5NQ6I This tutorial covers the most basic tools and functions of InDesign making it more an easily understandable for beginners. The video clearly showcases and explains each tool in a way that is easy to understand as a beginner. The pen seems like it may be challenging to use initially but can become easier overtime. Overall, I found this to be a very useful tutorial and easy to understand the way that it breaks down how to us each tool in easy steps.  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnbT9HlXgjg This video tutorial provides basic introduction to Adobe InDesign making it subtile for beginners. This tutorial explains the interface and basic tools such as the selection tool, let tool. and shape tool. These tools are seem relatively easy to use and be applied to create a variety of different projects. I found it interesting how the tutorial higher the importance of using grids and guides to align objects which can improve the overall design.  3

 Photoshop Frame Animation Tutorials  1. Video 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llr_KTNtdlk This video covers the basics of Frame by Frame animation in Adobe photoshop for beginners. The tools used include the timeline panel and brush tool which seem realizably easy to use and understand. The video also showcases how to use these tools and how to add frames, draw on each frame using the brush tool, and lastly play back the animation. Overall, this video provided a clear and concise introduction on frame by frame animation on photoshop, that I feel set a foundation for my understanding on how to use this feature.  2. Video 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g651e7tNaoc This video showcased a slightly more challenging or complex tutorial on how to use animation in photoshop. It was harder to grasp the more advanced techniques that were used such as creating smoother animations using the onion skinning tool. In addition, It also showed how to adjust the the timing of the animation and exp

  Artist Statement For this assignment I created my own tag brush using the logo that I created. I created this on Adobe illustrator. I started by placing my logo into illustrator and tracing around the logo to be able to implement the effects around it. I then placed effects that I downloaded from Dropbox onto the document creating new layers as needed and bringing up and down the degrees as needed. Finally I created multiple color variations of my logo and placed them all on a separate document. I am happy with the outcome of the project and was actually very impressed at how the outcome turned out after placing all of the effects. 

  Final poster  Self portrait  Image used for self portrait  inspiration image for propaganda poster  Artist Statement  For this assignment I created a propaganda poster that is centered around the idea of spreading kindness. My idea for the poster was to spread a message about the importance of being kind and spreading kindness to others in addition to being against bullying. I found my inspiration for the design of the poster through looking at hippie and self love portraits until I found one that would best depict the idea I had in my head. For the actual poster, I used the spiral design and featured my self portrait that I created using Adobe Illustrator tools such as the pen tool to mimic an image of my own. I then created the spirals and added messages of the importance of spreading kindness and added some hearts. Overall, I am happy with how the image turned out and feel positive about the message that I am spreading on this assignment.