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Here is the ABC and 123′s project. The images weren’t cropped and turned the right way so the letters and numbers are hard to find. I don’t know why I didn’t think about this before going into class but after seeing everyone else’s I felt like a complete idiot. Guess this is the assignment when the Professor said we would fail sometimes.

The comments that were said in class were that it was hard to tell where the letters were but that they liked the photos. For the numbers idea people thought that it was a clever idea but that they wished it would have been cropped for each one so that they could see each number in the square.

I sat outside at the tables near the bus stop. I made a picture book of things that I heard since I am a more visual learner. The watch in the beginning is to signify the time and from there I hope you can figure it out. Enjoy!

Walking around the Anderson building I spotted alot of patterns from buildings to keys. There were tons of patterns that I would have never noticed just in the little space that I go to everyday.

The Jack and Jill project was a group effort. It was hard to pin down if we wanted to do realistic or abstract but in the end went with abstract.

Our comments during the critique were that

1. Thought that the lines indicated movement but could have been a different shape.

2. Wished there had been something in the back to contrast the white wall.

3. The composition was good overall.

4. Thought that the story was understandable with the shapes.

50 things was a traveling project. I first starting by walking around the neighborhood where class was but my camera died of battery so I thought I would draw some pictures of what I noticed around the classroom building and the last of the pictures were taken where I live.

When I was walking around the neighborhood around the Anderson building what stuck out to me was how much trash there is everywhere. It got me thinking since the trash was in bushes and near flowers and how opposite they look against the other. It doesn’t go at all and the contrast of the two doesn’t work in my opinion. Even the picture that had the straw in it next to the green bushes should blend a little since it is about the same size and look but it doesn’t go at all. Trash should stay in it’s allotted place unless we start designing trash that looks like the plants and ground so it blends in.

The other thing I noticed while walking around was the vibrant color of both doors and flowers. I also spotted a random little plastic cupcake lying on the ground that caught my eye and thought it was funny and out of place in the center of the side walk. Reminded me of a blog that I look at called Color Me Katie which does random street art just to make people smile.

The drawings I did were of common things that I saw but I wanted to focus in on just them since I usually just pass them by and pay no attention to them. I noticed the lines and design of each object and was amazed at how something so ordinary probably took a lot of time to design and effort.

The pictures that were taken at my house were of things that I also look over. The type of ground I walk on or what I look up to everyday, even the cat that sits outside on the porch are all things that I don’t take time to really examine or appreciate.

The black square problem was hard for me to pin down what I wanted to do. I wanted to take risks but wasn’t sure how and ended up just sticking with black. It was fun to think of ideas for describing words but had a hard time doing it with just four squares. I tried to play with designs within my four squares for the playful word and for the increase one I tried to make it so that the squares didn’t stick out. So here’s my black squares!

I really liked this project. It was alot of fun working with India Ink and going through the process of deciding which design was the best. I wish I had done things differently with my design but overall I am happy with it and glad it looked clean. I have never used India Ink before so I was very afraid I was going to smudge it everywhere but luckily that only happened a few times and it was very small on my board. Here are my ideas of different options that I could have done and then the final will be at the end. The comments that were said in class about mine were that it looked very checkerboardish and that I could have skipped using the grid lines to open up the piece better. They liked the craftmanship and that it made you keep looking but that the focal point should have followed the rule of thirds and not been at the very top or since it was should have been left completely white.

The first project is over and I must say it is a relief although I know there more is to come. This project was a struggle for me. It made me cross over into my uncultivated creative side that needs a lot of work. The thought of doing 100 sketches in class last Thursday was unthinkable to me but it helped me when it was announced that the faster I did the sketches the better. I felt that it made it worse and more messy and felt like throwing all my sketches away after looking at them. Here are the sketches and four designs. The feedback I received in class was that my lines were too much like shapes and that it looked too much like I just had plopped my design on the page without giving it a thought and my paper was not the right size. Hopefully the next project will be better and hopefully I learn from the mistakes I made on this first challenge.

Hi, my name is Sarah Paris and I’m a transfer from St. Augustine, FL. I love fashion and am majoring in Fashion Marketing and Management here at SCAD. I recently went skydiving and am going to tell you the details of that since it’s not something I usually do on a daily basis.

My friend Tiffany talked me into it since it was her birthday coming up and without really thinking it through I said yes. The day of skydiving the wait before jumping out of the plane was the worst. I had time to really think about what I was about to do and kept imagining the parachute not opening up. The guides kept trying to say that the odds of jumping out of a plane are alot less slim than getting in a car to drive somewhere but they didn’t count in that there are alot more people driving a car. The time came and I got in the plane. The ride up wasn’t so bad but then when we were just about to jump my heart was beating a million times per second. Then it happened. I jumped and the feeling was so strange, it was like I was on a roller coaster on steroids. We jumped from 11,000 feet and everything went really fast. Thankfully the parachute opened up and moments later I touched down on land and was so relieved. I will probably never do that again but the fact that I did it is something I’ll never forget and a fear I overcame.

Oh and here’s a picture of me so you know who I am!

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