Week 02 2D 2012

This week: Expanding your Knowledge.

This week we continued our group exercise and to create a background for our Blogger.

Group Exercise:

The group exercise from last week’s progress:

-        Accessing sources of information (individual web searches)

-        Merge Data (Scribe)

We continued with:

-        Evaluating Information (Group discussion)

-        Collating Information (group work with scribe)

End Result

What are the Top 5 search engines?

I’ll add the words “in the world” to be more specific

Google #1, Yahoo #2, Baidu #3, Bing #4 and Ask #5 (reference top 5 internet search engines in world)

What is the benefit of using different search engines?

Different results are produced by different search engines because results can vary depending on what you and others generally look at.

What alternative are there to search engine use?

You can visit a library to look at magazines, books – Michelle Turner is the creative arts library specialist at CDU

Forums and discussion boards

Industry specific websites

Local Galleries

Communicating with other artists and using web sites like:

Ø  Youtube

Ø  Whitepapers http://www.whitepapers.org/ - research reports

Ø  Eyemagazine http://www.eyemagazine.com/home.php

Ø  International Journa of Design http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/

Ø  Graphis http://www.graphis.com/

Ø  The design files http://thedesignfiles.net/

o   Referencing Methods: see Visual Diary Specs / Showreel Specs

What are some different ways to word your web searches?

You can put an “ around particular words to narrow the search to the string of words.

Add a “-“ to exclude certain words, for example – cats will return a search without reference to cats

Ctrl F, then type the word you are looking for on an opened web site to find your particular reference

You can also use the following features:

Ø  Google – wildcard for a broader search

Ø  Boolean Search – use and / or gives more variation on search

Ø  Google Scholar – research and peer review information, academic writers

(Reference class material, reference http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/genericsearch.htm)

Practical – Design Choices

We were asked to make a design for our blog website we were allowed to use any tools we liked. Afterwards we had to scribe a description (at least a paragraph) addressing these 3 points:

-        Shape.

-        Media.

-        Style.

 

I wanted something that was simple yet showed some of my artwork on it, all these images have been hand drawn wacked onto illustrator and fiddled with. Obviously I like the color blue – Don’t judge me, but it looks elegant yet justified.

Shape:

            Simply a square with a light color with a nice gradient.

Media:

Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5 and of course all my images were scanned and re-touched.

Style:

I don’t know if I have my own style, yet I mainly used manga/chibi style all free hand, non-color. And yes most of these characters are myself. I wouldn’t call it pure art but more so applied (by myself).