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WordPress Magic - TEN THINGS TRENDING Sep 13 2014

WordPress Magic – TEN THINGS TRENDING Sep 13 2014

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Wacom Tablet and Pen Design Tool

For my tool, I have chosen the Wacom tablet and pen. For drawing and illustration, I have used traditional media for years. I have also used Illustrator for design for a long time. However, for the first time this year, I have used a Wacom tablet and pen as illustration tools with Illustrator. I have discovered a joy in this method and have been happy with the results.

The Wacom tablet and pen is obviously a digital tool. Its marks are made and initially viewed on the computer screen. With Illustrator, its brush can be set to different widths and pressure settings. It can create a huge variety of marks on the screen, but of course, cannot draw directly onto paper. The immediacy of instrument to paper is lost. The Wacom pen traces on the tablet invisibly and the eyes must look to the screen to see the result. There is a slight disconnect between the mark making and the results.

However, the smoothness of the marks and the ability to create vector drawings that may be altered in unlimited ways and then enlarged are huge benefits to this tool.

A quote in the reading says that we must  have a personal relationship with our tools and also create tools ourselves. In a way, I feel that the Wacom pen has been made my own. After much experimentation, I have learned to choose the brush size and pressure that works for me.

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Tumblr as a Design Tool

The tool I decided to more closely analyze is the social media, photo-sharing outlet Tumblr. Since Tumblr is pictorial based, most people on the site are ready, willing and able to comment and post on images whether it is the meme of the moment or an awesome poster design.  

I would say that Tumblr’s effect and influence on what it produces depends a lot on the decisions of the designer who is using the tool.  As for inspiration, Tumblr can be a great tool, which can influence the outcome of a piece. In Tool (Or, Post Production for the Graphic Designer), Blauvelt explainsthat we have the power to find or own inspiration and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Looking at past designs of other friends, or even others designs on Tumblr can greatly encourage or influence a piece. The Tumblr universe is filled with creative types that want to share, so why not take part in that?

In Andrew Blauvelt’s writing he says that this generation of designers are different because we are less worried about transforming the conventional practice to accommodate our work, it is more about “produce now, ask questions later” With Tumblr, when I post something I need an opinion on or just want to show it off, not only can I hashtag my work to market it to the right audience, but most of my followers are people that will give me honest opinions: my friends, family, fellow students.  Not enough likes or reblogs might make a designer a bit nervous. Tumblr’s influence also comes from the fact that everything editable, content is not owned but shared. Blauvelt simply puts it today “it is a culture of re-: remix, reprogram, reschedule, reboot, repost, recycle.” We must now understand that designers are users, and vice versa.

However, Tumblr can also have a sometimes-negative effect. In the Tumblr world, users have short attention spans and are eager to move on to the next one. Your design can become yesterday’s news in a matter of seconds.  That is where I believe it limits design. Andrew Blauvault states that the work “circulates in a free-flowing,” and “contextless,” “bubble or vacuum.” Also, Tumblr can limit designs because now an artist may take the audiences’ lack of response too much to heart, and that may change their initial attitude and outcome of not only that design piece, but how an artist designs in general.

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Design Tool

For some reason my first thought was an exacto knife because I feel like use them a lot not just for trimming things down but for creating – I really love collages. However instead I decided to go with the pencil, because it’s so invisible to the forefront of my mind because I don’t even have to think about using it since I use a pencil ALL. THE. TIME. (notice my emphasis there lol). Before I get started on a design or even writing a paper, which I will be typing, I use a pencil to sketch and outline my thoughts and ideas. The construction of the pencil is made of graphite mixed with a clay binder, leaving grey or black marks so that it can be easily erased. Pencils are used for writing and drawing so it made to be durable although gentle enough that it can be erased. You can use a light or heavy hand to emphasize the darkness of something in a sketch.  With a pencil things are only ever going to be gray, if I’m hoping to convey that something is colored I’m going to need another tool instead of a standard pencil.  Ballet writes “Drawings, pasted up layouts, instructional overlays, coordinated color systems, standardized ink formulation and paper sizes, prototypes, models and reprographic proofs were just some of the instrument invented to ensure that the faithfulness of a designer’s vision was executed according to plan.” When designing it always helps to have a plan and with a pencil you can sketch/draw out an idea so you can produce your vision exactly as it was in your mind and going into production it’ll help to show people who can’t read your mind as to what you want your design to look like. I think a pencil (at least for me) is the first tool I grab before I get down to work.

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The Brush

From my long - and most likely incomplete - list of tools, I pick the brush. For thousands of years, this has been the ideal object to render anything. There is a brush for everything. The length and width of the bristles affect the outcome. But the type of hair used is even more important. Badger hair is good for blending oils. Hog hair is best for evenly spreading paint. Mongoose hair is resilient and perfect for long term projects. 

There are almost infinite ways to handle it, all depending on how one holds it and how much medium is applied. Focusing on my own painting techniques, I either do thousands of small dabs with tiny brushes and water-downed paint. Or I'll go to the opposite end of the spectrum and "slash" on large globs of paint with large brushes. I aim for realism in my paintings and both methods accomplish the job. 

No matter at what level of skill it is wielded at, the brush always produces something original. Programs are becoming increasingly advanced when it comes to recreating brushstrokes. But at the end of the day, there's always an algorithm creating those strokes.

Brushes still have a place in design today, but more-so in the handmade goods market. Like silk screen, non-digital paintings are becoming more of a commodity. The appeal of the brush is that it is becoming increasingly obsolete in day-to-day practices. Hand-lettered font and paintings are trendy in publishing and only the older art directors bother hiring painters. So for now, I must rely on that trend to last or for current art directors to keep their jobs longer.

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Design Tools

#Priscilla #tool-list

I use various tools  on a day to day basis.....since I have such a broad spectrum of my skill and abilities when it comes to design. I love creating using my Laptop & Wacom Drawing Tablet.  When that first came about in my life I took it in like an adoptive child.  I made sure those items were with me at all times.  I would post up at a restaurant every morning and go get inspired .   I would treat myself just so I can be out and about making it known this is who I am.  I would throw on my headphones, which to me is another VITAL tool in any project I do whether its drawing a logo for a client...drawing a tattoo for a client, WHATEVER....you name it music is what inflluences me as an artist.   These arent just tools for me ....their my weapons in the survival of the fittest in this concrete jungle we live in.  Some tools you just cant use when you are loyal and patient with how you want the world to take you in as, as a respected entreprenuer able to design your next best shoe.  My, charcoal, sketchpad, pencils.....ALLLLL my drawing pencils are daggers....these babies show my true talent when it comes to drawing.  My preciseness unique ideas in every piece show that I am passionate and true to what I do and what I do second best.  No its not what your thinking... although...No... its being being a mom sillies.  I am a mother of a beautiful 3 year old boy and he also uses all my tools. As a slight influence, I let him be the artist he is and let me tell you this boy is an amazing sculptor.  I would have to say that these are all my basic tools of course if you want to add digital software when creating then we can even go into using software such as Final Cut Pro, Maya AutoDesk, Adobe Photoshop, Toon Boon Animation Studio, Adobe After Effects, Processing, and your whole Microsoft Office applications. 

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Of these tools the ones I need the most and are always with me are my headphones,  pencils and charcoal, and a sketchpad.  The fact that I have these tools with me all the time in fluences me and alows me to always reach out to my inner artist and create.  Being on a train for an hour everyday gives me that much time to create.  I am launching a shoe collection the end of the summer simply from a train ride home I started sketching away my next shoe.  I had drawn over 12 designs all to the sound of my music and an hour long wait. They can never limit my outcomes if anything they open up possibilites.

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With that being said, being a freelance artist in any medium allows me to be open with the businesses I am able to become.  In the reading it says, "Entire new sectors emerged dvoted to left-brain pursuits such as design management, design strategy and innovation for business, and the design of services, and systems, including consumer experiences, whether in bricks and mortar spaces or online."This is true to everything you read so far about my tools/weapons and how ive been able to use them.  Since realizing theres no limit to my madness...i have been able to own a mobile makeup company headed soley by myself and  design firm that deals soley in cleints with design orders, and just recently my shoe design company.  The possiblities have been made endless in my case.