Digital Media Blog

For my gradient mesh project, I decided to use my water bottle. I actually had a lot of fun with this project and it came out A LOT better than what I was expecting. I used about 6 different gradient meshes to complete this project.

Here are the colored versions of my logos. My original colored logo is the orange and red one. I chose those colors because the color orange is often associated with being confident and warm, while the color red is associated with being bold. I wanted my logo to convey a sense of confidance and openness so I decided to go with warm colors.

For my calligram, I used the lyrics from the song Coffeeshop Soundtrack by All Time Low to create the image of a coffee cup. It took me a fairly long time to create this as I struggled a lot with working in illustrator.

Here are the HTML 5 canvas tutorials I found the most helpful: https://www.html5canvastutorials.com/tutorials/html5-canvas-shape-fill/ - This one helped me get a better grasp on how to code lines https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_canvas.asp - We might have looked at this one in class  but it helped me understand coding as a whole a little better https://html5tutorial.info/html5-canvas-rect.php - This tutorial helped me with coding the square.

My name is Mia Hayes, I'm 19 years old, I'm from Naples Florida and at the moment, my major is new media. I'm a transfer student to UT, so I guess I'm kind of like a freshman. Art has always been an important, and constant aspect of my life(I even work at an art museum back home), so I'm very excited to learn these softwares and work on these projects. I've always been more of a traditional artist, never really delving in to the world of digital art, so I'm super stoked to learn how to use these  programs to create new works- especially the animation project. My main mediums are digital photography, graphite, and ink - but I've sort of dabbled in all realms of art. I've taken some courses at the Ringling College of Art and Design that were focused a lot on creating art and animations in photoshop so I feel like I have a bit of an understanding as to what we'll be creating in this class. From this class, I expect to learn how to use various sof...