I'd never really been a fan of it. I always found it kind of weird to be letting out my feelings on the internet - or even just letting out feelings. But I decided, it's a necessary thing in this world to express yourself, so what better way to do so than a blog which you can share, not share, kinda share, or just do aboslutely nothing with.
I like to babble, so I will, and maybe it will get boring. But I'm not forcing you to be here. I don't even know if there's anyone reading this, and I kind of doubt it, seeing as I'm a no one and probably won't share this with any real world people I know.
I rather use it as a way to express myself, especially in the form of design. Make comments on what's coming along in my world of design, what I want to do, what I plan on doing, etc.
My big word of the month is "inspire." I love that word, and I don't really know why. The ability to inspire someone, I suppose, is an amazing one. I'd love to think that I could do that - inspire people to do what they love, to help the world, achieve their life's goals. Because that's what I'm trying to do.
I'm not an artist. Well, not in the typical sense. I got a B+ in art (my lowest grade :( ) and I have to admit that was justified. When it comes to putting my thoughts out on paper, I'm not so skilled. I prefer photography and working from that, but I'm slowly learning how to draw myself. I've started sketching and looking for inspiration everywhere I go. So my recent obsession with the graphic world is to enhance my world. I've always had a nice eye, according to most people, but I've never really thought so. I've always loved the world of art and creating, but never really thought I could do it. I decided to change my mind.
I got my CS3 about two weeks ago now. I absolutely love it. Photoshop isn't all it's cracked up to be - I prefer Illy and vectors and everything having to do with them. Simpler. Cleaner lines. Wonderful. I've started doing vector portraits off of pictures I've taken - friends who were in interesting positions or costumes, to challenge myself a bit more. It's wonderful. And so fun. And some people really like them. My dad, for one, offered me $100 to do a family portrait vector art that he could hang on his wall at work. I'm so taking him up on that - now I just need to find a picture.
Something I really want to do to help my design is to do a summer program in graphic design somewhere - a precollege type thing - next summer. I'm going to be a junior this coming year, so next summer is a very important summer for me. One I'm looking at is Carnegie Mellon pre-college program in design - it looks amazing, and it you look at any feedback, it sounds amazing, too. Another is this one up in Oakland that my friend did recently - she loved it. But I don't know of all the programs. OH! I was also considering RISD, as it's an amazing design school (though I'd prefer to go to a school with a lot more to offer, as I would prefer to double major in graphic design or commercial art AND something to fall back on if I fail - business, or something of that sort). Even though it's only design, it would still be great for any portfolio I wanted to do for any school! The only problem with that one is that if you want to go, you have to sign up, and if you sign up and there's no room in your class, you're put in to another class automatically. So I could try and go for graphic design and end up in fashion design (which I suppose wouldn't be horrible, but it's not exactly how I'd want to spend my last summer). You can't even get your 500$ deposit back if you decide to go elsewhere. And CMU, it's a really hard program to get into - 16/80. And they don't seem to require a portfolio - so I wonder how they choose.
Whatever.
Basically. If you didn't want to read all that (though if you're here, you probably did. my apologies). I'm new to blogging and graphic design, want to enhance my skills, will use this to get out anger, inspiration, and just random random stuff.
Yeah.
Pickles.
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