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The most powerful, human created force on the planet? Graphic design! It guides our ability to reason, can solve any problem set before it, is always a gentleman and never betrays you in a time of need. Is graphic design, quite possibly, the best thing ever? Short answer, yes. Long answer, definitely yes.

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Solitaire Miles

My next artist that I found is Solitaire Miles.

"This is a combination of Photomanipulation and Digital painting done in Photoshop with a Wacom Graphic Tablet.I was watching some children play outside the other day and they were just leaping and jumping all around for the joy of just freeing their bodies and moving. I can remember when I was 4 or 5 and I would just sprint down the block or do jumping jacks for no other reason except that I was filled with energy and felt happy to just be alive. I don't jump so often now, but this is a good reminder to never forget to just jump a little bit now and then, no matter how old you are "

I find that such a simple event (the seeing the children) drew out such a beautiful illustration. Most of her work is much the same (the ones that are digital at least). I found that she did it with a wacom amazing, but at the same time, it makes sense. It's got a painting type of a feeling. The piece that caught my eye was actually the flowers and the little girls hair. At first I thought the girl was masked into the image. Now I'm not exactly sure. Maybe a filter has been put onto the girl to blend her in more? Either way, I love this piece. Thumbs up for Solitaire Miles!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cunisdiabolis/712143626/

Gale Franey

So, I found really hard to find an artist of photoshop. At least one with a portfolio available to search threw easily. It's taken me about an hour just to find random images. I googled "Photoshop artist(s), best photoshop, professional photoshop art, photoshop designers" etc. It was rather frustrating. For my first artist, it's going to be someone random. Ironically, I found them threw Flickr.





Gale Franey's work is amazing.
I find her work to be just amazing. Like, wow. I read threw her description, and was floored.

"This may be my most intricate digital art piece yet. I spent days working on it, in total about 100 hours. The horse is made from so many pieces of various horses, at least 8 horses, none of which were this color. The color is made completely in Photoshop. The tail alone is made with about 7 different pieces. You will recognize my daughter as the 'model'. Her dress is made from scratch, a figment of Photoshop's imagination."

I love the complexity of this image, and how it looks mysterious. The fact that it's a lot of compositing (i think?) and holds a realiztic feel bloggles me. This piece caught my eye because of I had a hard time telling at first that it was indeed a photoshoped image at first glance. The glow i saw on the second glance gave it away. Over all, I'm impressed. I have been inspired to become a perfectionist when it comes to attempting something of this magnitude.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/galefraney/210224927/

Scale (I think)

I believe Scale is my element, I've lost my actual strip that says. Here we go in high hopes!

So, I have put up both of my examples of my shape explorations. Threw the Cannon and hearts, i believe by using the growing hearts, it looks as though they are actually moving. Or I can hope. With the Fleur de Lee to me it's almost as iff they are disappearing the background (I recalled this technique from grade 3/4 with sillouettes). I'm not overly impressed with my shamrock, but what can you do? I'm hoping that I meet the objectives of the assignment and that at least one piece of mine demonstrates the element (Fleur de Lee!). After completing the first (the Fleur and Shamrocks) I went and did a secondary image. I wasn't overly sure how it would work, but I'm happy with it. Threw using this element I learned about how to add depth to my work as well as using a variety of tools.

I quiet enjoyed this assignment. Led to some pretty interesting ideas.

Goal Settings

My personal goals basically are to have a job I enjoy doing and to grow as a designer as well as a person while in the work force. Ultimately, I’d love to have a job where I can be a stay at home mom (when the time comes) and no rely on my significant other fully for financial support. By completing the DGD program, I’m hoping to achieve various skills in the industry to make me a valuable employee to any firm so my opinions aren’t limited.

My greatest source of inspiration would have to be nature and all the wonders that are tucked away deep in the mountains. For instance, the way it keeps developing to the various eco systems; true it may be a bit slow, but eventually evolution does occur. Or there are, Nurse Trees that are old, dying, rotting stumps that give life to new trees (or moss) because it’s bountiful in nutrients from the rot. Another favorite of mine is water. It’s constantly moving in some way or another, craving its way threw to any path or just trying to find a new way to get around an obstacle. When I'm in serious trouble, I look towards the various types of youth I work with. Always full of ideas that are constantly changing the world around us.

At the end of the program I’m hoping to be an advanced user of CSS and be able to manipulate a few of the CSS Zen Garden files available, if not create my own. I think it would be pretty monumental if going into either Illustrator or Photoshop was just a second instinct or next to (scanning in an image and taking it up and beyond what is possible). Having a broad idea of the international market and what to be aware of would be a great achievement. I’d also like to be able to run with Apple Script and html like a second language would have achieved a good part of my goals in the DGD program. Also to leave with a portfolio that will appeal to a company and possibly land myself a job would be a big plus.