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Today’s creative excercise was reverse-story telling. Attempting to tell a story by starting with the ending. The first part was trying to figure out what story to tell. I chose the story of The Tortoise and The Hare. Honestly navigating from the bottom to the top of a story is pretty hard, it changes the general theme of the story, having to hide certain things so you can tell the story in a more coherent way.

This week the class was asked about social media. Social media itself is so interesting when it comes to expressing art. Most people post things like art, and music or events and such. The different ways social media can be used to create conversations from nothing is pretty interesting.

Brushes

Brusheezy, Freepik, BrushEasy, Bittbox, and GrutBrushes.com are all very good brush tools, some having smoke brushes, water colors and other stuff, some of them do have exclusive brushes that give some cool brushes but those are based with monthly subscription, some even have brushes of the week for more diversity.

Actions

DeviantArt, Brusheezy, Behance, Shutter Pulse and Greater Than Gatsby.com which offer free sample sets or archives. These sites provide a variety of actions, from photo effects and color corrections to creative filters, for you to download and use. Again some of these have special subscription some of them even let you sample the exclusive

Plug-ins

ON1, GraphicMama, Kendall Camera Club, Pixel Street, and Abyssale/Clipping World are some good plug-ins that range from photo editing to giving different textures to even helping create websites and browsers. I’m pretty sure some of them have premium stuff like giving different textures and the like.

As of late, looking at shirts has gotten me in the mood to try to copy the designs, or at least try to copy them. They are pretty complicated but I think that’s where the fun is. Even the cropping choices are pretty interesting to me, trying to fit the design on a shirt without making it look like it was just copy pasted on there is pretty hard but it’s not doing that bad. Next I should try album covers.

With the help of chat gpt, I’ve found a creative way to throw things away. It’s called SCAMPER- Substitute, Combine, Adjust, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, Reverse. It’s also supposed to help students ‘think outside the box’ but it also works with moving things around. Especially people who horde small objects like collectables, trinkets etc. Putting it to use wasn’t hard mainly because I used it to get rid of all my old clothes and things I kept from highschool, like notebooks and the like. I managed to trash a lot of things and sold some clothes to my local church. Made me realize most people don’t use everything they keep or collect and it clutters a lot of space.

I’ve been seeing a lot of really bad design choices again. As fun as it is to find the good in every piece, I do like seeing the funny design choices that are made by professionals. Like most art, design is subjective but it will always make me laugh. Comedy is a type of art form as well.

The song I chose was puppet by Tyler the Creator. I took a bunch of parts of my face and put it together. The stitches in the background show the pieces. I’ve always heard this song and felt like apart of me was split, like I was conversing with people with pieces of me instead of my whole.

We were told to create an emotional piece about a song. The hard part being we cannot use words meaning pictures are gonna have to do. We can do a picture or a lot of pictures. It’ll be fun to see how I can show emotion without words, especially with music. So to maybe help, I decided to try putting emotions to pictures to help a bit with the process.

I’ve decided to try to work on a simple puzzle. I’d have to make said puzzle. The problem is not making it too easy or too hard. A middle ground of sorts. The reason I picked this is to see how I work with creating problems and my own solutions to them. I was able to make a four piece puzzle, it was harder then I thought. Mainly it forced me to not take the easy way out

I’ve recently been having some problems remembering to turn in work. The way I’ve previously been tackling has showed less than admirable results. Design has a lot of problem/solution type of work ethic. I’m starting to get used to that habit of working with the solution being built up slowly. Hopefully this makes it’s easier to turn in work and ultimately help me figure out quicker solutions to other problems I have.