I met with my art adviser a few weeks ago and she told me if I wanted to, I could graduate this semester (mainly because I have so many credits and she told me she’d hate for me to have to stick around 3 more semesters just to take a language class). Of course I want to graduate now! I had to get my speech class credit taken care of (you have to take a speech class at FSU but since I took it in high school I did not have to take it again).. And yesterday everything was finally taken care of! I contacted my adviser again yesterday and she sent my name to the registrars office so that they’d add me to the graduation list :D!

Graduating is a little scary though, not going to lie. With the way the job market is I know finding a job in the field I want (graphic design) will probably be tough but I am up for the challenge. I plan on completely re-designing my portfolio and I’ll start applying for design jobs very soon!

I am very hopeful for my future. I know it will be hard but I am ready. I am ready to get my shiny piece of paper saying I graduated and I am ready to move on to the next chapter in my life!

Fall classes started at the end of August and they are going very well! I am enjoying all of my classes (web 2, media graphic design workshop, and painting 1) and can not believe it’s already October. I am really hoping to post more of my class work as I complete it or work on it in general. And one thing I want to do for my painting class is post the process of my paintings, from beginning to end. First up, is our last assignment.

We had to do a self portrait, I used a photo of myself as a reference as well as stared at myself in a mirror. I had a lot of fun with this project and plan on doing a self portrait for the final project at the end of November. Below is the beginning to near end of the project:

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The first one you can tell I was having a lot of problems when it came to the face. Shading with paint is very different than shading with a pencil or even in photoshop. The second and third I was going crazy with the paint and experimenting, which wasn’t working so well haha. The last my super-awesome professor (she was also my professor for figure drawing 1 in Fall 2010!) helped me A LOT. She showed me how to fix the hair and make it look like it’s flowing (by painting like a waterfall with a mixture of colors) as well as the face. She demonstrated how to fix the eyes as well as the general shading of the face. She even added in a few freckles Here is the final project:

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It’s not completely finished (my shirt/arms are cut off in the image) and there’s a lot more detail in the face that is lost by using my iPhone to take the photo. I learned a lot in this project and I am really loving this class

I am taking part in the Veracity 31 day blog challenge! Week 4 theme is Domestic! What is one of your favorite and least favorite subjects in school? Why?

I was always a big fan of art in school :D! Which I guess is no surprise as to why my major is art,  haha. But beyond that I loved Science. Whether it was Chemistry or Biology I found it very interesting. I was also always very interested in History in school but I’d say Science class would take the lead I especially loved the lab classes. Mixing things together to solve something was always fun to me.

My least favorite is probably Math. I never had teachers that really kept my interest or focus in class, at least not until my senior year. Senior year of high school it was not required to take a math class but for whatever reason my best friend Becca and I chose to take one. Both of us LOVED the class because we had an amazing teacher. Her methods for teaching just worked and kept us interested. I remember at least one time she brought us donuts and orange juice (was our first class in the morning at 7:20am!) because everyone in the class made amazing grades on a quiz. She was one of my favorite teachers