Final Portions of Week 4

Hey there y'all!

Whew! So I just now finished and sent off my Typography assignment. I spent a very, very, very, very, very long time on this one. I redid it about five times. I played with different elements. I made one I thought was "safer" and then I said, "Fuck it! - I'm sending the one I like!" I did this entirely in the Adobe software programs - aren't you proud of me? I'm loving Deviant by the way, I'm finding some great fonts and brushes there. Anyway, this is my Week 4 assignment for Typography:





So....that's done. Whew! :)

As for my English Comp assignment - I sent it off last night. It was the annotated bibliography for my Research Essay Project (see a few entries below for the details on that). We were required to have five sources, three of which were "scholarly". Well....y'all gotta know me a little by now - I went all Hermione on it again. I have twelve sources and about half are "scholarly". The damn thing is eight pages long - hence why it's not being loaded here. Suffice it to say that it rocks and will completely and totally help me rock my essay project. Woot! :)

So....Week 4 is finally complete. Week 5 was posted yesterday so....time for me to get to it. I've only looked at Success Strategies so far, and I may actually go back on my word and post my assignments for this week's class after all - they look like they might turn out kinda cool. We shall see.

Anyway....look at the previous entries for the latest on grades and what-not. As always, more to come later kittens! Thanks for the feedback and love! Laters!

Week 3 Typography Assignment

And....as threatened.... :) Here is my Typography assignment that I sent in. Basically what we're doing right now is redesigning crappily designed flyers and such that he posts on our class site. I can't show you the before documents because apparently they are SUPER-SPECIAL-HEY-THERE-DON'T-LOOK-AT-MY-STUFF protected docs and I can't so....imagine something really crappy with really crappy graphics and really stupid text and....you'll get there. :) Hint - we aren't allowed to rewrite the text so....not too much imagination required on that front.

Anyhooo.....this is what I came up with this week.

Oh...what's that? What program did I do it in? Ummm...what do you mean? Did I do it in Adobe? Uhhhh....well....sure....okay, yeah. What's that? Oh...have I figured out all those Adobe problems I was having? Well....uhhhh....sure....sure I did. Yeah. It's all squared away....yeah. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it *cough*Publisher*cough*)

Here ya go!

Update to the Drama

Hey there hi there ho there y'all!

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it may not be the headlamp of an oncoming train! I have a tutoring session scheduled with someone in my major that is supposedly an expert on all this software. Bright and early Monday - yippee. :) I am continuing on with my independent study, but learn so much better if I have someone to ask questions of. Also - I was informed there is an on-campus class I can sit in on if I like. Good news all around! I have to give it to my school, they are willing to do whatever they can to help you succeed. Woot! :) Great way to start the weekend.

Also - new classwork for Week 3 posted today. Success Strategies was easy and it's already done. As previously mentioned, hearing about that would make y'all fall asleep so - we're skipping posting that stuff. English Comp is seriously busy this week. Lots of fun for y'all later. Intro to Computer Graphics and Typography is more of the same as last week so....there will be lots of fun and exciting posts to follow. Stay tuned! Cheers!

Typography Week 2

Oooookay....so....our assignment in Typography this week was supposed to be done in a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop. And I tried, I really did. But then....fuck it - I did it in Publisher and copied it in. Again - sue me. What. Freaking. EVER. Have I mentioned I hate Adobe? WHITE-HOT HATE! So....we were supposed to redesign a flyer using the principle of proximity. Also, my Typography instructor is kind of a prick and very in love with himself so....his expectations, they are high. My skills in Adobe, they are low, as will probably be my grade on this. But after almost a week of wrangling around with this shit, my response is Fuck. It.!!! So....here's what I came up with:





So that's it for school for this week. New assignments and classwork should be posted tomorrow and the fun shall continue. I am contacting the school tomorrow about getting some Adobe tutoring cause man - this sucks! Wish me luck y'all - I need it! Cheers!