5th Illustrator Drawing

Lecture 2/22

Today's lecture featured professors from the GAID (Graphic and Interactive Design) and Printmaking programs. They're both majors I'm considering pursuing. However, I was a bit worried about majoring in printmaking. It's the one of the two that I'm more interested in, but the man giving the presentation was showing work done as fine art. It was work for galleries and installation. I'm under the impression that trying to be a fine artist and sell work to make a living is an extremely difficult field to break into, and that chances are, you won't make enough money to be a career artist and still pay rent. He couldn't really offer any marketable alternative routes one could take with a BFA in printmaking. I'm really trying to get a job after graduation, and I don't want to choose a major that might leave me unemployed. I wish that there were better solutions to the problem of being an artist and being unsure of your career path.

Floorplan Project

This project was about using the shape tool to show a bird's eye view of a room. My room is a kitchen (not my own, I made it up). It took a while to figure out the different tools and to work efficiently, but once I figured out the shortcuts it was much easier.

illustrator project part 4, pattern 2

keyboard drawing, illustrator project part 3

pattern, illustrator project

pattern made up of j's, p's and o's from the myriad pro front.

eggs and bacon! illustrator project (free drawing)

this is made up of i's and an o from the mistral font.

lecture reflection 2/8 (not foundation, art history)

since i slept through the jewelry department presentation (not intentionally), i'm going to do my reflection about my art history lecture from yesterday instead. we're covering italy between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. i went to italy during the summer of 2009 with my high school art teacher and class, and we saw a lot of the work i'm learning about in class now. at the time i didn't understand the significance of what i was looking at (say, the Arena Chapel and its innovations in composition). now the work means much more, and i wish i could have taken this class before going. it's not a loss, really- i'm going back for second semester of junior year, to temple's rome campus. art heritage is just making me even more excited for that.

lecture summary 2/1/2011

The lecture from this week was much, much more useful than the one last week. I feel like the information would have been much harder to find on my own. It was about two minors- Art Education and Art History. I wouldn't do Art Ed because I don't think art teachers (in elementary and secondary ed) get very much respect. I know my teachers had to constantly fight the administration to get supplies, and often they paid out of pocket for better quality stuff. The kids gave them attitude because they felt that the class wasn't worth their time or was a joke. I'm not trying to deal with that kind of bureaucracy or bratty mentality.

Art History would be easier since I'm required to take four courses for a BFA anyway. All I have to do is take two more. And looking at the course load I'm going to have and my plans to go to Italy junior year, I think it's completely doable. Plus, it'll be good to have art history as a background for my work.

pairing 3

This pairing represents two of my favorite foods: tea and dessert. It's the same logo as before, paired with my favorite brand of tea, Tazo. The bag that this logo was a part of had a huge fudge brownie in it, which was delicious. I got it the day I went to Reading Terminal. The teabag I had in my room. I've got a few different kinds of tea...there's probably about 50 bags of tea on my bookshelf.

pairing 2

The image on the left side is a picture of Tyler's cafeteria. It's crammed with art kids on break, eating "art kid" food- meaning, vegan food, sushi, Indian, and some random sandwiches. There's a stereotype that all art kids eat is alternative or multicultural foods, which is completely untrue and is really frustrating. What's not a stereotype, however, is the number of art students who smoke cigarettes. Most people I've asked smoke cigarettes because they thought it was cool, and now they just do it out of habit. Others say it's to relieve stress. But for some reason, there are more art student smokers than other majors (from what I've noticed).

pairing 1

The image on the left is a photo of the Suburban Station exit behind City Hall. I paired it with the logo from Flying Monkey Patisserie (in Reading Terminal) because I almost lost the logo on the subway. Flying Monkey is in Reading Terminal; I took the Broad Street Line to get there. Also, Reading Terminal and Broad Street's subway both get a ton of foot traffic.