FMX210 First Blog Post

Hello everyone!

First off, I'd like to start by introducing myself. My name is Ethan Marley and I'm from the small state of Rhode Island. I'm an avid music lover and enjoy playing the trumpet, piano, and listening to music all day. My favorite sport to play is volleyball and I played it all throughout high school. Here at UT, I'm majoring in Advertising and Public Relations, and I'm exited to continue to experience all the amazing courses this school has to offer.

After coming to our first class last Wednesday, I was super exited to see the computers we'll be working on, as well as all of the cool software. My professor, Professor Roundtree, is very knowledgable about our course and has had several years of experience in this field, which exites me even more for this course. I myself have taken somewhat similar courses such as Graphic Design in high school, but I am aware that Digital Media is very different in many aspects. Still, I am eager to see the kinds of projects we'll be working on over the course of this semester.

I can expect to learn a lot about how to use computer software, as well as how it's a crucial part of the media. I'm sure these software programs are used everyday by people in the real world actually creating these digital works. I personally love to be creative, it's one of the many reasons why I chose the major that I did, and I can't wait to put that to good use during this class.

Also, here's a picture of me below!

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BW to Color

Artist Statement: For my black and white to color photoshop project I decided to use three different types of color schemes; Square, Triad, and Analogous. I really like pinkish-purple colors and I think my favorite scheme in this project was probably the analogous. I was able to utilize the quick selection tool to outline multiple sections of my image including my shirt, shorts, hair, the wall behind me, the reflection on the water, the lights, and as an added bonus, the moon! Having a white shirt on definitely helped the colors on my shirt pop a bit more than the rest of the image since it was taken at night time. Overall, I really enjoyed working on this project and I think photoshop is my new favorite software that we've used so far!

Calligram Project

Calligram Project For my calligram project I decided to base it off of something I would say represents me, which is music. What you are seeing above is a Treble Clef with music bars flowing off of it, representing what sheet music would look like. I was able to morph the words in a way to look like they're flowing off of the Treble Clef using a tool called the puppet warp. Placing pins on each word using this tool allowed me to morph the words in the way I wanted them to. While I did use the envelope distort tool for some parts, the puppet warp tool was much easier to get the desired shape I wanted. I decided to go with a variety of different fonts in this piece to add an element of creativity, not keeping everything the same. Each different font represents a different sentence, making for easier readability. While things do tend to get a bit trickier to read in the Treble Clef area, using the different fonts helps distinguish between sentence. Inspiration My Letter

Business Cards

Artists Statement: This was my very first time working in InDesign and while its similar to other softwares we've used in class this semester, it also has its differences. My three logos features various different color schemes which I was able to coordinate with the business card colors. I feel as though business cards should be kept simple and not overcomplicated to keep focus on the logo and personal business information. On the front of the cards I included my logo and on some I included elements like diamonds and circles. On the back of the cards I included the same elements as the front but added in my business information. If I was to choose one card to actually use for a business I would choose the black and red color scheme because I think those colors go great together and looks the cleanest. Overall this project was super fun and allowed me to be very creative with my card designs!

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