Saturday, September 27, 2014

Learning Experience

I bought a graphics tablet and spent the last day getting used to it.
I friend recommended I learn to get used to it by copying a picture. So I did.

I used a reference image my friend gave me:












Drew a sketch:




















Figured out how to outline it:




















Made a final Product:



















Time to do other stuff with the tablet.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Website Design

I haven't directly pursued designing a website yet before in my life and I hope this project will prove to be some sort of major insight onto the design and concept behind a website. Today we got done some work, more specifically we planned out exactly what were the "Use Cases" or goals of the website and gave them names that we can use for tabs on the Website, we also debated a lot about the overall design plan and layout of the website. We came up with a basic outline and have a general idea of what we could do in the future but we are more focused on the current iteration. While it was a slow day, we deliberated for a long time because we couldn't figure out what we could and couldn't do yet, in other words practical.

The Accidental Masterpiece

Kimmelman manipulates his words in such a way that is profound to me. There is something there that I really want to learn from. I can already tell that reading this book will be very fun and beneficial. They way he describes the various stories gives is a very relaxed sense of colloquial conversation yet it provides an insight into his intelligence. What really surprised me about his style of writing was that he was trying to convey difficult content, yet it proved not to be a challenge to understand. As an introduction to his book he doesn't directly mention the book but instead leads us in with his expert usage of cliffhangers and easy to understand taboo concepts.