november update

seriously only one more month left of school????? geez this semester passed by like nothing. i still feel like the first day of school wasn't even that long ago.

i've been doing lots of designing lately...
1) fliers/signs for jeff (yay stuff for portfolio!)
2) a whole bunch of grid designs for 99... i had like 4 different designs. not 4 variations of one design, but rather 4 completely differing designs. good practice though.
3) after struggling so much with the 3rd project for 104, i think i've got it down. i wasn't thinking outside of my panels. like, i would constrict one panel to being red, and the next to being creamy-beige. but i realized that the idea is to break OUT of the panel construction, and so i obliterated the distinction between each panel.

i realized that my favorite color combo is red+cream+black. oooooh that's like my go-to now... but i really should mix things up :(

for next semester, i'm hoping to get into 105. perhaps with connie... i wanted to get miller, but today kim was like "you guys shouldn't stick with just one 'mentor,' but rather select a variety." i also want to take lighting (photo), arth70c (UGH not more art history...), aas33b (ugh more general history), and maybe a flash class at SJCC if i can fit that in. i got into an upper-div honors seminar on tuesday afternoons, so hopefully i'll find that class interesting. supposed to be about global citizenship and U.S. issues. i really need to be enlightened in that lol.

so, time for a grades analysis!

dsgd99: i keep getting A-'s on my projects. and usually for the stupidest things, i.e. using double-sided tape instead of spray mount, or having too tight letter-spacing for an author's name when that issue wasn't even brought up in any in-progress critiques -___- well let's hope i do well on the next projects because i will be pissed if i get an A- in this class -____-

dsgd104: i don't feel like kim spends as much helping me as he does everyone else in the class. like, i actually have to press him for help, i.e. today when he pointed out one thing to change, and he seemed like he was going to walk away. then i was like, "is there anything else that you would like me to change?" then he pointed something else out. like, if there's something he doesn't like in my piece, i'd rather he point it out during an in-progress critique rather than in the final critique, when i wouldn't be able to change it. but yeah anyway, i've been getting A-'s too. geeeez i've been trying really hard to get a solid A but it is difficult :( there'd be just ONE tiny little thing that he wouldn't like, but he wouldn't mention it during an in-progress.

aas33a: uhh i need to start working harder. lol. period. not really motivated, though... i think i either have a B+/A-. sigh. hate being on the crux!

color photo: too easy... i think everyone got A's on the last projects. really not worried abot this class at all lol

web design: ehhh. i don't care about my grade. i just want the knowledge. and honestly this class is really boring.. i just download her powerpoints and follow along with them, instead of with my professor.




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soooo, ranking from most-need-to-work-on to least:

aas, 99, 104, web design, color photo.

BUT if it were a matter of priority, 104 and 99 would take it hands down.